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They are a measure, however imprecise, of which candidates have the most energized online supporters, or most social media savvy fan base. After all, what they are counting is the number of Internet-devices controlled by people who want to vote. ## Transcript [00:00] Good evening and welcome to the NBC [00:04] News YouTube Democratic Candidates Debate. I was [00:07] born to hear Dr. King deliver his I Have a Dream [00:09] speech. It's important not only that we remember what [00:14] he stood for but that we pledge to continue his [00:18] vision. He spent the last day of his life in Memphis [00:22] Fighting for dignity and higher pay for working [00:26] people, and that is our fight still. I have supported [00:30] from day one an instant background check to make [00:33] certain that people who should not have guns do not [00:37] have guns. Has voted with the N R A, [00:41] the gun lobby numerous times. They've both been [00:43] inconsistent when it comes to this issue. Now, I've [00:46] never met a self respecting deer hunter that needed a [00:49] A R 15 to down a deer. There needs to be a concerted [00:53] effort to address the systemic racism in our [00:57] criminal justice system. Black lives matter. Who [01:01] is satisfied that millions of people have police [01:05] records for possessing marijuana when the CEOs [01:09] of Wall Street companies who destroyed our economy [01:13] have no police records. [ APPLAUSE ] We have to make [01:15] our police departments Look like the communities [01:20] they serve in their diversity. I want us to defend [01:24] and build on the Affordable Care Act and improve it. [01:29] We are spending far more per person on healthcare [01:32] than the people of any other country. We have the [01:35] Affordable Care Act. That is one of the greatest [01:38] accomplishments of president Obama, of the [01:40] Democratic party, and of our country. What do you see [01:43] is the difference between what you would do about the [01:45] banks and what secretary Clinton would do? The first [01:48] difference is I don't take money from big banks. I [01:52] don't get personal speaking fees from Goldman Sacks. [01:56] Senator Sanders called him weak, disappointing. So I'm [02:00] gonna defend Dodd- Frank, and I'm gonna defend [02:02] President Obama for taking on Wall Street. [02:05] [ APPLAUSE ] Taking on the financial industry, and [02:06] getting results. The debate is [02:10] over, climate change is real. It is beyond my [02:14] comprehension [ APPLAUSE ] how we can elect the [02:17] president of the United States. Somebody like Trump [02:20] who believes that the climate change is hoax invented [02:24] by the Chinese. Join me in putting forward of plan to [02:28] move us to 100 % clean electric energy grid by 2050 [02:32] it can be done. Iran's behavior in so many ways is [02:36] something that. We disagree with it. [ SOUND ] I am [02:39] very proud of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. We have [02:43] had one good day over 36 years and I think [02:47] we need more good days before we move more [02:50] rapidly toward any kind of normalization. What [02:54] the nightmare is that any of my Republican colleagues [02:58] appear to want Is to not have learned the lesson of [03:02] Iraq. I have a three point plan that does not include [03:06] American ground forces. Qatar happens to be the [03:08] largest, wealthiest country per capita in the world. [03:12] They have got to start putting in some skin in the [03:15] game. << We're on the threshold of a new era of [03:17] American progress and I believe that we have only [03:20] need to join forces together and cross that threshold [03:23] into a new era of American prosperity. << I want to be [03:27] a president that takes care of the big problems and [03:28] the problems That are effecting the people of our [03:28] country every day. [ APPLAUSE ] Thank you. The [03:35] government of the United States of America belongs to [03:38] all of us and not just a handful of wealthy campaign [03:44] contributors. 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