As the voting phase of the nominating process approaches, it’s time for the practical part of the DemDebate discussions to grow a lot larger. ed_kilgore writes
Senator Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Elizabeth Warren at the September Democratic primary debate in Houston, Texas. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images An awful lot of the time spent in seven Democratic presidential debates, including the one this week in Des Moines, revolved around questions aimed at determining these candidates’ backgrounds and record, values, visions, and capacity to beat Donald Trump. That’s all very important information.
Yes, that subject did come up in the October debate, but even then it was more about visionary ideas of how to reshape SCOTUS to protect cherished rights via court-packing or terms limits or some other unlikely-to-be-enacted scheme. More specific, short-term plans are more relevant.
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