The second night of the first Democratic primary debate on Thursday in Miami didn't take long to turn into inaudible squabbling. Until Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) stepped in, that is.
The candidates on stage were in the middle of an argument over whether a candidate's age should factor into the election when it soon became difficult to distinguish between who was speaking and what was being said. Harris spoke for most people watching from the audience and at home, when she told her fellow debaters, for all intents and purposes, to chill.
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