What Went Down In The Third Democratic Debate

I was at an HCBU the other week in South Carolina at an O’Rourke event, and he also talked about the New York Times 1619 Project about the beginning of slavery in America. Mentions like these are definitely part of his campaign’s refresh.

In his opening statement, O’Rourke went directly at Trump and his rhetoric as stoking the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. According to a recent Gallup poll, more people are blaming political rhetoric for mass shootings that they did several years ago.

Yes, Julia, isn’t this the inevitable by-product of direct primaries to choose nominees? The end of smoke-filled rooms where the meta-conversations used to happen …