Tonight at 8 PM ET, the second round of Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage for a CNN debate. You can watch it here, after the jump. Do share your thoughts in our comments section wherever you watch (or not).
Once again, there will be 10 candidates each night. Tonight, the lineup is: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Author Marianne Williamson
I’ll be watching with a group of Democrats and will try to comment as we go along.
The video below will start at 8 PM ET.
(Top image via screen grab)
The format is total crap and I’d argue, in some cases, it can disinform voters misleading them to poor choices.
For example, after Kamala Harris ‘won’ the last debate with her totally scripted, heart string pulling moment on busing to slam Biden we eventually learn over the following weeks she’s completely disingenuous on the topic and there’s nary a hair width difference in their views on busing. This is only possible because with 10 candidates talking like Joe Isuzu to keep within 2 minute sound-bites and 30 second responses real debate gets flushed down the toilet.
However, it’s important to keep up with primary candidates through other means (which unfortunately takes more time that many Americans don’t have) because we have to pick a candidate in the primaries who can win.
I did later after the debate coincidently check out cable news analysis on MSNBC and Fox News – more out of daily habit than anything else. MSNBC had excellent analysis actually devoted to what the candidates said – a novel concept it seems after I switched to Fox. Fox News had “Ingraham Angle” on at the time. Typical Fox News total crap analysis – if you can even call it analysis. A bunch of right-wing bobble-heads like Mike Huckabee trashing everything they said and basically saying if the Democratic candidates were only far right wingers it would have been a great debate.
It is getting rid of the traitor in the White House. All else is just window dressing. We can discuss these many other things when sanity has been restored to America, but until then there is only one goal – Chump out of office and headed for trial and hopefully prison.