PBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Clinton finished strongly with her closing statement. She managed to make the case that she agrees with Sanders on his core issue of income inequality and its roots in corrupt campaign finance. At the same time, she said, she is also the candidate for voters who care about many other issues. Clinton also briefly cited the poisoned water of the children of Flint, Michigan — which is a good reminder that if you haven’t yet read our colleague Anna Maria Barry-Jester’s article on what went wrong in Flint and who gathered the data to show it, you really should.

Sanders is trying to be the successor candidate to Obama and the candidate of revolution. Probably not sustainable.

As his former secretary of state and someone who holds 97 percent of the same policy positions, Clinton’s not going to be able to gain any separation from Obama even if she wants to. So she might as well embrace him now — and hope that Obama’s approval rating is 53 percent and not 42 percent in November.