Article snippet: Call it the Amy Klobuchar debate, after the Minnesota senator who broke through in a forum with no clear winner. Call it the quartet debate, after Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former vice president Joe Biden, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who polls have found bunched up at the top of the Democratic presidential race. Call it the impeachment debate, a forum that came amid hours and hours of testimony from the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump, but the topic didn’t dominate the evening. Whatever you call it, the two hour debate presented by MSNBC and the Washington Post in Atlanta on Wednesday night gave the 10 Democratic presidential candidates on the stage a chance to reset the campaign with less than three months before the first voting in Iowa and New Hampshire. For the candidates, the stakes were high, though likely for different reasons for each. Yes, Buttigieg entered the debate knowing he would be tested like never before in these debates. Warren went in trying to reclaim the energy she had a month ago. Sanders wanted to show he is the only true progressive option. And Biden needed his first strong debate to back up his electability pitch. While the top-tier engaged on one level, other candidates did their best just to be relevant enough to make the next debate. The two candidates on the verge of not making the December debate are Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who has yet to grab a s... Link to the full article to read more
Scorecard: Grading the debate performance of the Democratic candidates - The Boston Globe
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