Averse to the minute-by-minute returns watching, Warren said she and her husband were watching “Ballers” on election night ‘16 until later when most numbers in
Richmond asks Warren about criminal justice reform: "Let’s just start with the hard truth about our criminal justice system: it’s racist."
Warren: "Our prison system is something that America should be ashamed of. What we do to other human beings is fundamentally wrong."
Richmond: What factors played into your decision not to run in 2016, and have any of those things changed about 2020?
@elizabethforma: "Can I just answer the second question? Donald Trump!"
Warren pivots to talk about the importance of 2018. "We cannot be a party that focuses every four years on presidentials and skips" the midterms.
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Jill Biden stepping out a bit more, speaking before her husband at HRC Dinner. Opens by telling story of punching a neighbor who was bullying her sister. "I hate bullies," she says
. @DrBiden talks about incorporation of LGBT "As You Are initiative to work of the Biden Foundation. "When the history books are written we want to be on the side of equality."
. @JoeBiden notes @ChadHGriffin credited him for endorsing marriage equality "early -- but it was very late," he says. Adds he had made it clear to Obama staff he wouldn't shy from question if asked directly
BIDEN, starting his midterm stump: "I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of what’s going on in this country. I’ve had it up to here! This is not who we are. This is not the America I know."
Biden says this is "the most important election any of us have voted in so far. .. We must, we must reestablish American values."
@MichaelAvenatti@MichelleObama Avenatti: "There is no question that we are the party of love in American life today... But here’s what I believe. When you’re fighting for the values of love, you can’t afford to fight lovingly."
. @KamalaHarris at #NetrootsNation: "Obstruction of justice it is a crime. And anyone involved needs to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
@KamalaHarris Harris also updates her "Let's speak truth" and brings in her service on Senate Intel Cmte.
"The Russians know that racism and issues of hate have always been America’s Achilles’ heel. And we need to deal with that weakness."
@KamalaHarris Harris: "The folks who helped build the Democratic Party … have not always been given equal voice in the Democratic Party. And we need to deal with that."