This was not the debate anyone expected, but it was perhaps the debate that voters needed. …
The CNN-Des Moines Register debate Tuesday night at Drake University did not feature the expected — choose your favorite journalistic cliché — no holds barred/gloves-are-off/there will be blood on the floor exchanges between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or either of them and Joe Biden.
But across a few big areas that are central to the campaign, the debate did help to clarify some big substantive differences between the remaining viable Democratic candidates. CONT.
Ryan Lizza, Politico