What Went Down At The Nevada Democratic Debate

Klobuchar has kind of been at the center of the action tonight! Which I think is good for her, even if she hasn’t given her most polished answers and seemed a little flustered at times — the last thing she wants right now is to fade into the background. But she’s certainly getting a taste of what it’s like to be treated like a front-runner.

I mean, the thing to remember, as I talked about earlier tonight, is that it’s not enough for Bloomberg to merely hold his ground. He has to GAIN more before Super Tuesday to really accumulate enough delegates to become a real threat to win the nomination, or at least to win it without a brokered convention. And tonight is going to make that harder. As to whether it causes some type of downward spiral, I don’t know how to estimate the odds of that. It’s one of the roughest stretches in a debate I’ve seen though for any candidate, though, and it comes at a time when the media coverage round Bloomberg is shifting in the direction of greater scrutiny.

I don’t think Sanders gave a particularly great answer in terms of releasing his health records. But as I expected, the hits on Bloomberg have been way stronger, so I’m barely recalling the Sanders part of this debate. So that’s good for him.