Social justice seizes Democrats at the first 2020 debate

Published June 27, 2019 3:41am ET



There’s no greater demonstration that the social justice movement has gripped the Democratic Party than the first presidential primary debate on Wednesday.

Candidates Cory Booker, senator from New Jersey; Beto O’Rourke, former representative from Texas; and Julián Castro, former Housing and Urban Development secretary, took turns speaking Spanish. NBC moderator José Díaz-Balart asked questions in Spanish. Marianne Williamson, who will be at Thursday night’s debate, tweeted that she felt she now needed to learn Spanish.

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