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What Went Down In The Fourth Democratic Debate
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 12.9 percent of people said the economy and jobs was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)
Who voters think is best on the economy and jobs
Among the 417 respondents who said the economy and jobs was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll
| candidate | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 40.2% | |
| Bernie Sanders | 17.0 | |
| Elizabeth Warren | 13.1 | |
| Andrew Yang | 7.5 | |
| Someone else | 4.9 | |
| Kamala Harris | 4.2 | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 2.9 | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 2.7 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 1.5 | |
| Julián Castro | 1.3 | |
| Beto O’Rourke | 1.2 | |
| Cory Booker | 0.5 | |
| Tom Steyer | 0.5 |
As the Harris correspondent, she’s on safe ground talking about women’s reproductive rights in a Democratic debate, and gets a loud audience response.
I’ve said before that both Sanders and Biden have a clearer position on health care than Warren, and I think you saw that play out in that last exchange, where they were both fairy effective.