What Went Down At The Univision Democratic Debate

I find it perplexing that Sanders hasn’t brought up trade more in tonight’s debate. While we don’t know definitively that his hammering of Clinton on NAFTA and other trade deals helped him win Michigan, it’s possible it did. With the Ohio primary coming up next Tuesday — and its 159 delegates at stake — it seems tactically smart to bring up the issue again.

Lifting the Cuban embargo would be quite popular among Democrats and Latinos. According to a September Marist survey, 78 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of Latinos support it.

A query about Wall Street for the candidates was framed by a quote by Sen. Elizabeth Warren about what she sees as a “revolving door” between Wall Streeters and the White House. Those ties can also be indirect, as we’ve seen during the current administration. In 2013, Lawrence Summers, the economist and former Harvard University president, withdrew from consideration to be chair of the Federal Reserve because of criticism of both his policy stances and his taking fees for speeches to financiers. Warren has been famously silent while Sanders and Clinton duke things out. She’d be a big get as an endorsement.