WASHINGTON (AP) – Bernie Sanders is itching to debate and not just with other Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination. He says Democratic and Republican contenders should be debating each other during the primary season, too.
That shakeup is unlikely to happen – each party is planning its own debates, as usual. But the network news shows Sunday morning were something of a debating society of their own as 10 declared and likely candidates from both parties appeared in a parade of political argument and sound bites, touching on ISIS, personal ambition, immigration, hair color and more. A sampling:
BUSH ON THE BIG QUESTION
Is some extraterrestrial force keeping Jeb Bush from announcing a presidential candidacy?
Pressed on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” he spoke as if the decision is not his own.