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What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate
Yes, Nate, I think it’s important to remember that in general, questions about what makes a commander-in-chief have a gendered edge — voters tend to assume men are more qualified on issues like foreign policy and defense. So it’s definitely coming in hot to frame the question in that way.
As your Warren correspondent, I’m not sure I love the premise of that question about Warren’s commander-in-chief credentials. It’s true that as compared to the rest of the top four candidates, more voters in the DMR poll said they viewed her ability to lead the military as “more of a weakness.” But more voters said it was a strength than a weakness. And I wonder if the responses to that poll question are liable to be a little gendered.
Warren just brought up cutting defense spending. As Poll Bot mentioned before, according to a Hill HarrisX poll from June 2019, just 16 percent of Americans — including 25 percent of Democrats and 6 percent of Republicans — support decreased spending for military defense.