What Went Down At The First Biden vs. Sanders Debate

Fundamentally, Biden’s argument that “Eight years of Obama-Biden prove you can trust me on X” seems like it works with Democratic voters against charges that he once held the wrong policy, etc.

Yes, Poll Bot, exit polls had Biden consistently winning among those voters who said foreign policy was their top issue, too — even when there were more candidates. Even somewhere like Iowa, where Biden didn’t do well overall, he got 43 percent of those voters who said foreign policy was their top issue (though only 13 percent said it was).

The fact-checkers are going to have a field day with Biden, who has supported efforts to limit Social Security and did vote for all of the things that Sanders just said he did.