2020 Democrats Avoid Attacking Bernie December 14, 2019 By Taegan Goddard
“Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have been sparring over their work histories and health-care policies in recent weeks, but one Democratic 2020 candidate who poses a major threat to both of them is for now going mostly unchallenged: Bernie Sanders,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Aides to some of the Vermont senator’s competitors said he is getting a pass for a reason. Democratic candidates think Mr. Sanders’s core supporters are unlikely to leave his side, so there is no point trying to pick off that support, the aides said. But they also don’t think he can build his coalition enough to capture the nomination.”
Or could it be they are, at least in effect, conceding to Bernie? Or they know he's ready for them? Consider the different responses of Warren and Sanders when asked how the would pay for Medicare for all--he was ready with a brief, understandable and logical response; she disappeared into and struggled through the weeds of policy. IMO.
She did eventually come up with an understandable and logical response. I'd love to see a debate about whether her proposal or Bernie's makes the most sense. But it was very notable that it took her more than a week after she was first challenged to come up with this plan.
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2020 Democrats Avoid Attacking Bernie
ReplyDeleteDecember 14, 2019 By Taegan Goddard
“Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have been sparring over their work histories and health-care policies in recent weeks, but one Democratic 2020 candidate who poses a major threat to both of them is for now going mostly unchallenged: Bernie Sanders,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Aides to some of the Vermont senator’s competitors said he is getting a pass for a reason. Democratic candidates think Mr. Sanders’s core supporters are unlikely to leave his side, so there is no point trying to pick off that support, the aides said. But they also don’t think he can build his coalition enough to capture the nomination.”
Or could it be they are, at least in effect, conceding to Bernie? Or they know he's ready for them? Consider the different responses of Warren and Sanders when asked how the would pay for Medicare for all--he was ready with a brief, understandable and logical response; she disappeared into and struggled through the weeds of policy. IMO.
She did eventually come up with an understandable and logical response. I'd love to see a debate about whether her proposal or Bernie's makes the most sense. But it was very notable that it took her more than a week after she was first challenged to come up with this plan.
DeleteIMO she should have seen that coming a hundred miles away and been prepared.
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"The extremely open (indeed bragging about it) joint impeachment trial planning between the President and Senate Republicans is a good opportunity to restate a point I’ve made several times recently in a slightly different context. The Senate trial is nominally a trial of Donald J. Trump. But in fact, his guilt is obvious, proven by an overwhelming body of evidence. Senate Republicans themselves know this. But this is the point. It’s not really Trump who is on trial. It’s Senate Republicans. The question is whether there is any level of criminal conduct from President Trump they won’t accept. We already know the answer to that. There’s none. Democrats’ trial strategy should be to make this point over and over and over again. It’s as simple as that."
I hope they will; but I'm not at all sure of it.
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