What Went Down At The CNN Democratic Debate

I’d have to go back through the archives to double check whether Clinton is right when she says there haven’t been any questions in the Democratic debates about abortion, but she got a big ole cheer from the audience when she said it. It was a way for Clinton to bring up Trump’s name, a not-so-subtle way of hinting at a pivot toward a general election mindset.

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Clinton faces a conundrum. On the one hand, she’s pledged not to raise taxes on the middle class. Instead, she’ll raise taxes on the wealthy — who she has tentatively defined as households earning $250,000 or more. So lifting the payroll tax cap to better finance the Social Security trust fund, which is currently set at around $118,000, might put her in position of defending tax increases on those who are arguably in the middle class.