Dear debaters: You don't need a 'breakout moment' to break through by mattbai
· Beto O’Rourke speaks Spanish, sometimes just because. Also, he’s more compelling when he jumps on tables. He should leap on the lectern.
If you missed all this, or if you tried to watch but fell asleep playing Candy Crush, here’s the good news. The lineup for tonight’s second debate in Miami — thanks to the random selection process NBC wisely used instead of hosting “kiddie table” debates — looks a lot more interesting. It includes the most established candidates in this early going, along with some of what I think are the most intriguing challengers.
The second pairing, namely Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, represents what I’d call the celebrity set. Which isn’t to say they don’t have substance — they do — but rather that so far their status is based mainly on what they represent and all the media attention that follows them, rather than on any firm idea of how they might govern.
According to all the cable TV and op-ed page wisdom, the Biden alternatives are the candidates who most need some big breakout moment in order to have any chance at all. Which probably isn’t going to happen, for a bunch of reasons. A good example of this is Barack Obama’s line in New Hampshire in 2008, when he cracked that Hillary Clinton was “likable enough.” That one condescending line seemed like a throwaway to a lot of us men watching the debate, but it hit women like a steel beam, and it helped revive Clinton’s campaign.
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