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Sanders: 'The economy is doing really great for people like Mr. Bloomberg & other billionaires...for the ordinary American, things are not so good.' #DemDebate

Sanders: '500,000 people are sleeping out on the street tonight, including 30,000 veterans.' #DemDebate

Bloomberg out of the gate hits Sanders for recent reports the Russian gov't reportedly is trying to further his candidacy along.

Sanders: 'If I'm president of the United States, trust me, you're not gonna interfere in any more American elections.' #DemDebate

Warren, on why she is the safer bet than Sanders as a progressive nominee: 'We need a president who is going to dig in and do the work, and actually get it done. Progressives have got one shot.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'Imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump. Think of what that will be like for this country...we have an opportunity to set a different tone.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'Bernie Sanders' analysis is right. The difference is I don't like his solutions. I don't believe that a gov't takeover of large parts of the economy makes any sense for working people or for families.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'Walking distance of here is Mother Emmanuel Church. 9 people shot dead by a white supremacist. Bernie voted 5 times against the Brady Bill.' #DemDebate

Biden now hitting Sanders for calling a primary challenger to the Obama administration, and for calling it 'weak' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'A lot of the issues we'll be discussing tonight are issues I raised 4 yeas ago: Raising the minimum wage to a living wage...making public colleges & universities tuition-free...guaranteeing health care to all people as a human right.' #DemDebate

Biden, on why his numbers appear to be slipping with Black voters.

Biden: 'I'm still 15 points ahead...I've worked like the devil to earn the vote of the African American community.' #DemDebate

King asks Biden point-blank if he'll drop out should he not win South Carolina.

Biden: 'I will win South Carolina.'

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Bloomberg says his mistake on Stop & Frisk was 'letting it get out of hand.'

Adds, 'If you talk to the people in New York City...I have over 100 Black elected officials who've endorsed me.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg is asked if he thinks Bloomberg's implementation of Stop & Frisk in NYC was 'racist.'

Buttigieg: 'Yes, in effect it was.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'I think what we need to do, instead of just reviewing everything from the past, is talk about where we're gonna go forward.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'I don't care how much money Mayor Bloomberg has. The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him. He has not earned their trust. I will...he is the riskiest candidate standing on this stage.' #DemDebate

Bloomberg: 'I have the experience, I have the resources, and I have the record...when people hired me to run NYC, 3x in an overwhelmingly Democratic progressive city, they elected me again and again.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'The Bloomberg Corporation and Mayor Bloomberg himself have been accused of discrimination. They are bound by non-disclosures, so they cannot speak.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'What we need to do is do what every other major country on Earth does: guarantee health care to all people...our plan we have laid out options all over the place.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: Sanders' spending plans would amount to 'three times the American economy. Not the federal government. The American economy...[the American people] are not with on spending $60 trillion dollars.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'I got into this race because I wanted to fight for economic justice, for racial justice, and to make sure we had climate justice for the American people.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: Sanders' Medicare For All plan 'adds up to 4 more years of Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, and the Senate [in GOP hands].' #DemDebate

Bloomberg: 'If you keep on going, we will elect Bernie. Bernie will lose to Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, and the House, and the Senate, and some of the statehouses will all go red.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'If you want to beat Trump, what you're gonna need is an unprecedented grassroots movement...of people who are standing up for justice.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'As Democrats we need to speak to the future that we can build together...how 'bout a wealth tax in America?' #DemDebate

Biden, on why he is the best candidate to lead on gun safety: 'I beat the NRA twice. I got assault weapons banned...I passed the Brady Bill.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'If I'm elected: NRA, I'm coming for you, and gun manufacturers I'm gonna take you on and I'm gonna beat you.' #DemDebate

Warren says tackling gun violence cannot come without rolling back the filibuster: 'Understand this: the filibuster is giving a veto to the gun industry...to the oil industry...to immigration.' #DemDebate

Sanders, on his past record supporting gun rights: 'I have cast thousands of votes, including bad votes. That was a bad vote. I have today a D- rating from the NRA...30 years ago I supported a ban on assault weapons.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'While everyone talks about winning rural areas, suburban areas, I'm the only one up here with the receipts [who has won while] being for the assault weapon ban, won in Republican congressional districts over and over again.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'I was in high school when the Columbine shooting happened. And I remember everybody in Washington saying 'Never again.''

Buttigieg echoes Warren's call for elimination of the filibuster. #DemDebate

Sanders: 'The American people now understand that we must be aggressive on gun safety, not dictated to by the NRA.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'The gun manufacturers own the Senate of the United States...how do we change the Senate in a material way?'

Steyer cites 12-year term limits & grassroots organizing as the two solutions. #DemDebate

Sanders: 'We're gonna make public colleges and universities free through a tax on Wall Street speculation. And we're gonna move to make certain that no teacher in America earns less than $60,000 a year.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'Teachers are being expected to handle the mental health challenges that their students are facing, because we don't have an adequate mental health system [for our kids].' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: '[Housing] isn't just an urban problem. It's a rural problem where we have housing deserts.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'While Mayor Bloomberg was blaming the housing crash of 2008 on African Americans and on Latinos...I was out there fighting for a consumer agency to make sure people never got cheated again on their mortgages.' #DemDebate

Bloomberg: '[My opponents] are in Congress, they say they can't get it done, can't get it done...You can work across the aisle. You just have to know how to deal with people.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'Housing, wages, the ability to get anything meaningfully done on criminal justice reform—all of these things are going to be harder to deal with as long as Black voters are excluded [via voter suppression].' #DemDebate

Bloomberg, on coronavirus and Trump's reported defunding of the CDC and government disease response services: 'There's no one here to figure out what the hell we should be doing...we don't have the organization that we need.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'It is realistic to want to legalize marijuana. I want to do that.'

Says there needs to 'be a process that you go through' when there comes to issuing expungements. #DemDebate

Bloomberg: 'Until we know the science, it's just nonsensical to push ahead' on marijuana legalization. He adds that he is in favor for decriminalization of possession, though. #DemDebate

Sanders: 'We're gonna provide help to the African American, Latino, Native American community to start businesses to sell legal marijuana, rather than let a few corporations control the legalized marijuana market.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'I understand how much the military sacrifices, how much their families sacrifice...[we cannot] use our military to solve our problems that cannot be solved militarily.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'The president has torn [America's ability to keep its word] to shreds...the first thing we have got to do is restore the credibility of the United States.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'This president has not invested [in combatting risk of coronavirus like] he should've: he tried to cut back the CDC...he has not really addressed the nation on this topic.' #DemDebate

Biden: 'I was part of making sure the [2014 ebola] pandemic did not get to the United States, saved millions of lives.' #DemDebate

Sanders on coronavirus: 'We have to work and expand the World Health Organization...This is a global problem. We've gotta work with countries all over the world to solve it.'

Compares it to climate change, another issue requiring international cooperation. #DemDebate

Bloomberg, on reality of China: 'We have to deal with China if we're ever gonna solve the climate crisis. We have to deal with them because our economies are inextricably linked.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'We know that Mayor Bloomberg has been doing business with China for a long time...he is the only candidate on this stage who has not released his taxes.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'If you look at the biggest threats to the United States...we need U.S. leadership for countries around the world' on issues like coronavirus or climate change. #DemDebate

Sanders on his past remarks of support for communist governments in China or Cuba: 'I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'This is about 2020...we're not gonna win these critical House & Senate races if the people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the Castro regime.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'Donald Trump's worst nightmare is having someone that the people in the middle...have someone to vote for.' #DemDebate

Sanders: 'The way we are gonna beat Trump...is we need a campaign of energy and excitement...we need to get young people voting in a way they have never done before.' #DemDebate

Steyer: 'We have to oppose a president who sides with a hostile foreign power that commits cyberwarfare against the USA. Where are all these patriotic Republicans who wave the flag, but when we're actually under attack, they side with our enemies?' #DemDebate

Sanders: Israel is being run by a 'reactionary racist' in Bibi Netanyahu. #DemDebate2020

Sanders: Our foreign policy needs to prioritize 'the independence and security of Israel. But you cannot ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people.' #DemDebate

Warren: 'Israelis have a right to security. And Palestinians have a right to be treated with dignity and to have self-determination. That is a two-state solution. But it's not up to us to determine what the terms of a two-state solution are.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar on Trump's North Korea policy: 'He literally thinks he can go over and bring a hot dish to the dictator next door, and he thinks everything can be fine...that is no way to do it.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'This president just likes to do tweets at 4 AM in his bathrobe.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'What is a radical idea is completely eliminating all private insurance...no industrialized country has gone that far...even in Denmark they have not abolished the possibility of private insurance' #DemDebate

Warren, on whether crisis in Syria can be solved through military intervention: 'I think what we've got to do is we have to provide humanitarian relief, we need to work with our allies on this, but this is not a moment for military intervention.' #DemDebate

For the final question, each candidate is being asked what's the biggest misconception about them, as well as their motto. #DemDebate

Steyer says the biggest misconception about him is: 'that somehow I'm defined by business success and money.'

Motto: 'To tell the truth and do what's right, no matter what.' #DemDebate

Klobuchar: 'The biggest misconception is that I'm boring, because I'm not.'

For motto, she quotes Paul Wellstone: 'Politics is about improving people's lives.' #DemDebate

Biden's motto: 'When you get knocked down, get up. And everybody's entitled to be treated with dignity no matter what.'

Misconception: 'I have more hair than I think I do.'

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Sanders: My biggest misconception is 'that the ideas I'm talking about tonight are radical. They're not.'

For his choice of motto, he cites Nelson Mandela: 'Everything is impossible, until it happens.'

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Warren's biggest misconception: 'That I don't eat very much. I eat all the time.'

Motto is Matthew 25: 'Inasmuch as ye have done to one of these, the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' #DemDebate

Buttigieg: 'I think the biggest misconception is that I'm not passionate.'

He says his motto comes from scripture: 'I seek to live by the teachings that say, if you would be a leader you must first be a servant.' #DemDebate

Bloomberg says his biggest misconception 'is that I'm 6 feet tall.'

His motto? 'I've trained for this job for a long time. And when I get it, I'm gonna do something rather than just talk about it.' #DemDebate

That concludes tonight's live coverage of the South Carolina #DemDebate.

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