What Went Down In The Third Democratic Debate

Several candidates have said something in Spanish during this debate. As Poll Bot mentioned in the first debate, a YouGov poll conducted between June 21 and 24 found that 42 percent of adults think that a presidential candidate speaking Spanish during a televised presidential debate is pandering, while 31 percent think it’s respectful. Twenty-seven percent were not sure.

I said before that nobody had gotten an A grade so far, but Beto has probably crept into the A-minus range, not so much because of that last answer but because of the answer on guns.

On immigration, it’s worth remembering that Democrats have surged toward a more pro-immigration perspective since Trump won the White House — 83 percent of Democrats now believe that immigrants strengthen the country, far higher than in the past.