Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: The health care dynamic duo

[melman]

On the first night of the second round of Democratic president debates Tuesday, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren dominated the conversation about health care, which took up most of the debate's first hour. Whether they planned it that way or not, it ended up being the two of them defending their Medicare-for-all proposal against the rest of the candidates.

It shows how much left-wing advocacy — especially from the Sanders camp — has reshaped the terrain of American politics in a very short time.

Now, it wasn't an easy walk for Sanders and Warren. On the contrary, both the moderators and the other candidates were clearly gunning for them. Jake Tapper seemed to think that he needed to speak as a stand-in for Democrats' GOP opponents rather than explore their thinking. Former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), currently polling in 14th place at 0.7 percent, got a bizarre amount of attention. Nevertheless, both Sanders and Warren were well-prepared (Sanders in particularly was markedly more on his game than in the first debate), and managed convincing rebuttals to every centrist objection.

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Now, Sanders and Warren do have markedly different politics and priorities. But it was clear Wednesday night that, relative to the other candidates, they are very much on the same basic team. It's anybody's guess who will win the primary, but if I had to guess, the two of them will remain like that until the end.

https://theweek.com/articles/855886/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-health-care-dynamic-duo

[Perseus]

1. My take last night is that both Sanders and Warren have the balls to go against the repubs

They will not allow anyone to step over them, and the best part is that they will not mince on words, and when the time comes to tell the creature to f-off, they will.

O'Rourke did much better than on the first debate, Buttigieg did well too, but I believe the clear winners were Sanders and Warren. The one thing I believe that Sanders needs to do is to take the "Socialist" out of the conversation, he needs to change it to "Democratic-Socialist", and be ready to explain it.

I am hoping that many of the candidates from last night will disappear for the numbers to go down to allow each candidate more time to answer the questions.

Jake Tapper was a jack-ass, in my opinion.