What Went Down At The Nevada Democratic Debate

Warren has been pitching herself as a “unity candidate,” but she’s sort of vacillated on what that meant. Most of the time, she’s seemed very reluctant to attack other candidates, but her campaign chair also sent out a memo just before her fourth-place finish outlining all of her rivals’ shortcomings. It seems like she’s now decided that the latter strategy is worth doubling down on — being nice has not been working so well for her.

Warren’s back is against the wall, so instead of going out quietly, she’s decided to hit hard in the hope that it will help her. Will it? No clue.

Lots of talk of unions tonight. Fifty-seven percent of Americans — including 74 percent of Democrats — say that the large reduction in the percent of workers who are represented by unions over the past several decades has been bad for the country, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in September 2019. In January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the rate of union membership is down to 10.3 percent, about half of what it was in 1983, the first year for which comparable data was available.