At tonight's DemDebate, TAFrank writes, “the surprise of the evening was that Biden had a decent night”
claimed Biden was contradicting himself on healthcare policy. “Are you forgetting already what you said two minutes ago?” Castro asked, in an ostensible effort to plant the idea that Biden is getting senile. The audience didn’t like it.
This isn’t to say that Biden is without serious vulnerabilities. Confronted with inconvenient, un-woke blemishes in his record of nearly five decades in politics, Biden seems to think he’s best off changing the subject. Why did Biden say something in the 1970s about not owing anyone for the sins of his fathers? An expedient answer would be to say that he has learned so much in the decades since and become wiser, or something like that, but Biden ignored it and went off on a babble fest.
Bernie Sanders was hoarse, and it hurt his performance, but he continued to distinguish himself as the only economic radical on stage, despite Warren’s efforts to tap into his movement. He made plain that taxes would be required to pay for his ideas. He disavowed the past two decades of trade agreements. He called the United States an oligarchy. His case is clear, and, although most of the press seems to dislike him, his brand is good.
As for awkward questions, if you want to see Democrats scatter like antelopes meeting a lion, ask them how they intend to enforce the border. Warren dodged it. So did Castro. So did everyone who was pressed on the subject by Univision’s. Clearly, everyone on the stage viewed—and views—any hint of border control as political suicide in the primary. The trouble is that, post-primary, such reticence could prove to be a different sort of suicide.
Aside from Castro, who came out worse from his exchanges with Biden, and Harris, who seemed unable to answer any question directly or depart from rehearsed lines, all of the also-rans had a not-bad evening. Klobuchar came across as substantive and sensible. So did Buttigieg. Yang got to reveal more of what makes him unusual.drew applause for his policy on gun control and plaudits from his fellow candidates for his response to the recent mass shooting in El Paso.
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