Democrats promise return of US "values" in diplomacy

For the fifth debate of the primary, ten candidates multiplied the short exchanges, limited by time. Everyone agrees on one point: the denunciation of Donald Trump's foreign policy.

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From left to right: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, on November 20th in Atlanta, during the 5th televised debate for the Democratic primary.
From left to right: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, on November 20th in Atlanta, during the 5th televised debate for the Democratic primary. BRENDAN MCDERMID / REUTERS

The fifth debate for the Democratic presidential election of 2020, organized by the MSNBC channel, has once again gathered ten candidates, Wednesday, November 20. A still unusually high number within a hundred days of the first votes, in Iowa. Despite a few passes of arms, this number has produced, as in previous debates, a certain neutralization of trade, given the limited time granted to each.

This debate nonetheless highlighted a common front in denouncing Donald Trump's foreign policy. Critics have indeed rained on the current chief command of the United States, accused in particular of having "Made to have" by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "He exchanged a photo shoot for nothing at all," assured the senator of California Kamala Harris. "It's our biggest threat to our national security," she added, an argument also defended by businessman Andrew Yang, who denounced the immobility of the current administration in the face of attempts to influence Russia, as in 2016, the outcome of the presidential election.

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"This guy has no idea what he's doing," added former Vice President Joe Biden, who strongly argued for the return of "Values" in American foreign policy, the defense of freedom and democracy. He has warned the leaders of Saudi Arabia, including Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman Al Saud, "Who must be treated as the outcasts they are". Joe Biden has also attacked China for the treatment imposed on the Uyghur minority.

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The former Vice-President, who is a customary swindler, has spoiled the benefits of the hard-hitting answers to foreign policy and the model of health coverage that could seduce the Americans, by a masterful blunder concerning her affiliation with the African minority. US. He claimed the support of "The only black woman in the United States to be elected to the Senate", while the second, Kamala Harris, was about two meters from him.

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Previously, the African-American Senator of New Jersey Cory Booker had already attacked him by estimating that he had to "Hover" when he opposed the legalization of marijuana, though effective in some American states, without Joe Biden finding a convincing parry. When the candidates, once again unanimous, expressed the concern to make the environment their priority, the former senator of Delaware put forward a law adopted in 1980 and which he presented as major, while his opponents remained pensive.

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