What Went Down At The December Democratic Primary Debate

Moderators now turn to climate change, an issue that has not received nearly as much air time as other issues in previous debates.

Not a ton of millionaires are sending their kids to public colleges, as others have noted. So this argument from Buttigieg is a bit overdone. Buttigieg does not support a wealth tax, but has been smart about kind of pivoting away from that position to more popular ones that are also contrasts with Warren and Sanders (Medicare for everyone who wants it, rather than Medicare for All, and free college for most people as opposed to free college for everyone).

Buttigieg sets himself apart from some of the other candidates by saying that college should be free for lower-income Americans but not for everyone. As former FiveThirtyEighter Ben Casselman wrote today, when you give people more options in a survey, that’s actually a reasonably popular position: