Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Coming just days before the biggest holidays of the year and about 24 hours after President Trump became the third president to ever be impeached, the Democratic debate in Los Angeles seemed destined to be quickly forgotten.
The long-awaited Warren/Buttigieg showdown Prior to the debate, observers expected the Massachusetts senator to engage with the South Bend mayor; she is the most-common second choice of candidates among his supporters, and could gain a substantial boost if his path to the White House is made a little rockier.
When Warren shot back “I do not sell access to my time,” Buttigieg asked, “Since when, Senator?” Though Warren has not held big-ticket fundraisers during her primary run, she did pursue moneyed donors in her last Senate race, and transferred $10.4 million from that fund to her 2020 war chest. There’s a debate over who came out on top, but the phrase “wine cave” trending on Twitter isn’t helping the mayor’s perception among the online left.
Biden and Bernie need punchier “over the hill” jokes Sanders missed in his response to former President Obama’s Monday statement that, “If you look at the world and look at the problems, it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way.” Warren shows the other septegenarians how it’s done The same question was addressed to Senator Warren, who, if elected, would also be the oldest president ever inaugurated.
Warren has a message for her economist critics Opting not to answer the question might not work well for Warren either, but she did have an effective retort for economists who assert that her proposed wealth tax would stifle growth: “Oh, they’re just wrong.” Biden — kind of — stutters, Sarah Huckabee Sanders goes low Toward the end of the debate, Biden described his practice of giving out his personal phone number on the campaign trail, including to a young supporter with a stutter: