Sanders, a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist”, spoke with grace and conviction about the income inequality facing the nation, taking a strong stance against large financial institutions where other candidates tried to divert the blame for the nation’s monetary woes.
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Most of the attention, properly, focused on Clinton and Sanders.
Now he’s saying that CNN and its moderators rigged the debate to favor Clinton and Sanders.
The newspaper called the debate “the best two hours of her candidacy to date”, adding that she “was head and shoulders above everyone else on the stage as a debater”.
On Tuesday night, we got our first chance to see all the Democrats in the 2016 field speak together, in one room, on the issues that matter most. Sanders said he would likely vote to legalize marijuana, while Clinton said she is not ready to take a hard stance at this time.
She said the Democratic debate was “a little less exciting” than the Republican debate.
We discuss all of that and much more on today’s BradCast, with really smart observations from two really smart journalists who are decidedly not “inside the Beltway” pundits…
The poll of 500 Democrats, taken Wednesday and Thursday, is the first public poll released in the aftermath of Tuesday’s debate.
The ratings would undoubtedly have been higher if Vice President Joe Biden, who for months has weighed the prospects of a late entry into the race, were on stage Tuesday night.
Sanders’ haul is a testament to the uncomfortably close nature of the year’s primary contest for the Clinton campaign, as her challenger has had much greater success attracting small donors.
Clinton has a strong lead on the question of which candidate can beat the Republican nominee in the general election.
Let’s have more just like this.
Nonetheless, Biden is showing signs that he could make an eleventh-hour bid for the nomination. The letter did not indicate whether Biden had made a decision, but did sketch out what a potential candidacy could look like, and promised that a decision would be made soon.
Clinton, meanwhile, already is widely known to the electorate, and she is working methodically not to repeat the mistakes of her 2008 campaign, when then-Sen.
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Martin O’Malley pointed out the contrast at the end: At the Democratic debate, there were no nasty words about undocumented immigrants, no calling someone out for his or her religious affiliation, or slurs about gender.
