Analysis: Tuesday night's DemDebate was mostly a wasted couple hours for a party and for candidates who don’t have time to waste
The snarling incoherence of the latest Democratic presidential debate Tuesday evening made it painfully hard to follow. But in its own way, the encounter perfectly crystallized the twin strategic challenges facing the party.
But excesses that congressional Democrats and liberal commentators have called an historic assault on rule of law got mentioned only glancingly by the candidates, who trained their fire on each other while mostly retrieving familiar lines of argument against Trump. The sojourns into the past included extended discussion of whether Sanders was too sympathetic to Fidel Castro’s Cuban dictatorship. Just because he has said positive things about education in Cuba, Sanders said, doesn’t mean he is sympathetic to authoritarian governments. “When dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that,” Sanders said. “But you don't have to trade love letters with them.
This comparatively coherent competition of philosophies, however, occurred well past the halfway point of the debate, aired by CBS News and co-hosted by Twitter. “And the reason for that,” she continued, “is that getting a progressive agenda enacted is going to be really hard, and it's going to take someone who digs into the details to make it happen.”
Biden also clashed with billionaire and liberal activist Tom Steyer, who returned to the stage after failing to qualify for a recent debate in Nevada. Some polls suggest that Steyer’s advertising is succeeding in winning him a significant share of South Carolina Democrats. If Biden does not win the state on Saturday and show convincingly that he can command the support of minority voters who are the Democrats’ most loyal constituency, his candidacy is functionally over.
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