What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate

Was this whole kerfuffle just meant to set up a viral moment of Warren saying that the men on stage have lost a lot more elections than the women on stage?

Warren knew she was going to get this question about whether a woman can get elected president. She chose to use it to focus on the candidates’ electoral records, noting that the men on the stage have lost 10 elections combined and that the two women are undefeated. However, I’m not sure that’s a strong argument for Warren, who underperformed Massachusetts’ partisan baseline in both of her two elections.

Just a lot of weirdness in that exchange, in how the moderator’s question to Warren presumed that Sanders wasn’t being factual. I can see Sanders folks being pretty annoyed with that, and rightly so.