What Went Down At The CNN Democratic Debate

Despite Sanders’s denials just now, Democrats have been annoyed that he has not raised more money to help the party’s down-ballot candidates, as Politico reported on Wednesday. (If he is elected, he would need scores more Democrats in Congress than are in office now in order to get any of his policies passed.) But Sanders has agreed to raise money for three Democratic House candidates. What sets them apart from the larger pack is that they have endorsed him.

Sanders is making an argument at the end of the debate that the primary season was front-loaded with states in the Deep South that were bad for him but that things are going to look up in the next couple of months. I’ll quote here from good ole Harry Enten’s welcome post for this live blog: “Voting in the Democratic race has largely followed demographic lines, and the primary calendar in the second half of April shifts to the Northeast, which is more favorable terrain for Clinton — she’s favored to add to her lead in pledged delegates in states like Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York.”

I’ve found several Quora responses, a Monkey Cage post and a Reddit thread, but no reported news article, on why debate moderators don’t have the power to cut off candidates’ microphones when they go over their allotted time.