What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate

A mid-debate checkin with Sanders, who I’m following tonight. I guess this is his first “front-runner” debate turn and he’s doing … fine? The “can a woman be president” answer was always going to be awkward, but I think he did a decent job executing his attacks on the Iraq War vote, etc.

None of the candidates, at least on stage, wanted to say the obvious: It’s not clear that Warren and her liberalism are similar to say, Klobuchar, or some of the women who won in swing districts in 2018. I will be curious if Warren’s opponents or surrogates take on this issue post-debate, particularly the male candidates’ female surrogates.

Well, that was a weird first 50 minutes. I don’t know that many voters are going to have their minds changed by the foreign policy segment. And I suppose Warren came out a little better than Sanders on their conflict, especially in making the affirmative case for her electability. But I’m not really sure about very much of this.