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Democratic Debates: The Moderates Strike Back
All told, this first night’s after effect is somewhat dependent on what happens on night two, but it is doubtful anything meaningful changed.
“In this discussion already tonight,” Rep Tim Ryan said on the stage last night, “we’ve talked about taking private health insurance away from union members in the industrial Midwest, we’ve talked about decriminalizing the border, and we’ve talked about giving free health care to undocumented workers when so many Americans are struggling to pay for their health care. I quite frankly don’t think that is an agenda that we can move forward on and win.”
Before I even had that cut-and-pasted onto this piece the Trump surrogates where splashing it all over social media. Ryan, John Hickenlooper, John Delaney, and newcomer Steve Bullock all took turns aiming fire at their more progressive counterparts generally and the two progressives at the center of the stage specifically. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders spent most of the night defending themselves and a more progressive agenda for the Democratic Party trying to oust President Donald Trump.
The first part of round two of the Democratic Primary Debates saw the moderates try to get their voices heard against the progressives…
