Democrat 2020 candidates like Biden, Sanders and Warren will be looking much further ahead than this week's debates
Analysis: The second Democratic presidential debates are important to some candidates, but the top-tier candidates are looking further ahead
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were the targets that other candidates had to hit to make an impact in the first of the second round of Democratic debates on the road to the presidential election next year.
A number of the lesser candidates like John Delaney, the former Maryland congressman, Steve Bullock, the governor of Montana, and Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar all turned Tuesday night’s debate into a moderates vs progressives scrap with the left-leaning Sanders and Warren.
However, the moderates failed to land a single convincing blow, despite their digs about the costly nature of their progressive policies. Perhaps the line of attack was too obvious.
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