“You’ve got three people who own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent,” Sanders said on Tuesday. 

This is false.

Sanders flubbed one of his regular talking points — that three people have more wealth than the bottom half of the nation.

We've fact checked the original talking point before, and it’s true that three people — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett — are estimated to have more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of the American population, according to a report by the left-leaning think tank Institute for Policy Studies. But it's not correct that these Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

Sanders, who like Trump has insisted that America shouldn’t serve as a global “policeman,” was asked where he differs from the president on foreign policy. He said, unlike Trump, he would not denigrate the United Nations and work to restore respect for international diplomacy.

But the line that probably got more attention was Sanders’ response to Jake Tapper’s question: “Trump is a pathological liar. I tell the truth.”

If middle-tier candidates like Klobuchar and O’Rourke were hoping for a chance to reintroduce themselves to viewers at home and boost their standing tonight, they didn’t count on Delaney eating into their air time seemingly every five minutes.

Delaney has been a 2020 candidate the longest — since 2017 — and it shows in his readiness with his answers.

While candidates have been more willing to reach out and thump one another on the debate stage, candidates are way more interested in attacking President Donald Trump.

Midway through the first night of the debate, Trump had been attacked 21 times, compared with 13 attacks on Bernie Sanders.

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Beto O'Rourke gave a passionate response when asked about racial issues and his support for reparations. Race played a role in his 2018 Senate bid, where he gained a lot of attention for an answer defending professional football players who kneel during the national anthem.

Delaney enthusiastically made the case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement President Barack Obama worked on until late in his presidency that was disowned by Hillary Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state, during her 2016 campaign. It was ultimately scrapped by Trump. 

In an era in which many working-class voters have grown increasingly skeptical of free trade — if not outright hostile to it — it’s unclear who Delaney was trying to reach there. Warren, the leading progressive on the stage, quickly naysayed globalist trade policies that she said hurt American workers.

Earlier this month, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll asked: "Do you think providing reparations for slavery is a good idea or a bad idea?"

Among all voters, 26 percent called it a good idea, while 63 percent disagreed. 

Among Democrats, 46 percent called it a good idea, while 40 percent disagreed. 

Among white voters, just 19 percent called reparations a good idea, while 40 percent of nonwhites said the same. (African Americans alone were not broken out as a subgroup.)