What Went Down In The Fifth Democratic Debate

Biden gives the right answer. As a presidential candidate, he should not be talking about whether Trump would be prosecuted by the DOJ if Biden were president.

For what it’s worth, Ford’s pardon of Nixon was incredibly controversial and may have cost him the presidency. So this question about how to handle wrongdoing by a previous president isn’t a simple one to answer at all.

I think Klobuchar has sort of already escaped the sort of gravitational pull of the 0-1 percent range — certainly in Iowa, at least — and has the potential to grow further. I’m less sure about Booker; I think his play is a bit more about having donors and elites notice him and promote his campaign instead of having them hold out and hope Bloomberg gets into the race or whatever.