What Went Down On Night One Of The Second Democratic Debate

Yeah, Perry, that was a good moment for her. She said, “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running to the president of the United States to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for. I don’t get it.”

Warren with a really sharp, memorable answer there. Who runs for president to say they can’t do things, she asks Delaney.

O’Rourke makes an argument that Texas is a swing state he can win by saying, in part, “no matter how red or rural, we didn’t write you off.” The interesting thing about that statement is that, while he did indeed campaign in every county in Texas, he did worse than Clinton in the rural parts of the state. He still improved on Clinton’s score in texas by 6 or 7 points. If Texas is a swing state, it’s because it’s an urban state.