Some Democratic presidential candidates leaned on their Spanish language skills during the first Democratic primary debate on Wednesday.
The debate, which aired on NBC and MSNBC, was also broadcast on Telemundo platforms, making it the first Spanish-language channel to host a Democratic presidential debate. About 41 million U.S. residents speak Spanish at home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
O’Rourke, who represented a border district and speaks fluent Spanish, kicked things off early in the debate, breaking out in Spanish in answer to the first question addressed to him about the top individual tax rates.
✅ Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the women's suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892-1900. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had founded the association in 1869.
