What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate

For what it’s worth, Micah, the most recent national poll from Quinnipiac University released earlier this week found that 57 percent of Sanders’s supporters picked Warren as their second choice while 52 percent of Warren’s supporters picked Sanders as their number two. This isn’t surprising in some ways, but it does seem like the progressive lane is a bit more obvious now than it was previously.

Tom Steyer is also talking climate and trade. And youth-shaming Buttigieg for not being on top of it faster.

Sanders’s pre-debate hits on Biden (on Iraq and on trade) have been brought up by the moderators. Sanders is getting the debate he wanted — the moderators are highlighting votes that Biden probably would not make today. But I kind of feel like Sanders isn’t really taking advantage of a pretty favorable environment for him. He is not as skilled as, say, Buttigieg in hitting his opponents in memorable ways. One of the best lines of the campaign was when Buttigieg said Warren had given more information about how many selfies she had taken than about her health care plan. I feel like Sanders does not have a pithy, memorable way to take on Biden.