What Went Down At The CNN Democratic Debate

Clinton gets some of the loudest applause of the evening for voicing strong support for abortion rights, saying that she would only nominate to the Supreme Court a justice who believes Roe v. Wade is settled law. Importantly, she said “believes” — Sanders’s contention that he would nominate a justice who supports overturning the Citizens United decision on campaign funding indicated that he wanted his nominee to explicitly state this preference. Supreme Court nominees don’t typically announce plans to overturn Supreme Court decisions.

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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