So many candidates, so little time.
The clearest take-away from this week’s debates is that no matter how much hand-wringing America’s 24-hour pundits do about some imagined progressive vs. moderate Democratic gulf, our 2020 candidate bench is wide, long and strong.
Everyone on the stage during both nights of the second set of 2020 Democratic presidential debates would do this country proud and be a far, far better president than Donald J. Trump.
Furthermore, everyone on the stage on both nights would make an excellent vice president or Cabinet member.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday were rock solid, and both handled the heat of the Medicare-for-all debate better than any candidate in the 40-minute health care discussion Wednesday. In fact, in the second debate night, Kamala Harris didn’t seem to know how to defend her own health care plan against the studied and square-on knocks from former Vice President Joe Biden – you know, the guy who’s supposed to be off his game but clearly isn’t.