Bernie Sanders’ hoarse voice during the third Democratic debate in Houston did not prevent his message from attracting Latinos registered to vote in 2020. A national poll by Univision News, after the debate, found that the senator is now favored among Hispanic registered voters by two points (in a virtual […] Read more »
The Houston debate changed few minds but may have opened a few
Everything you need to know about the Democratic debate in Houston is the fact that there isn’t much agreement on exactly what happened. The debate on Thursday was either punctuated by personal attacks and sharp ideological exchanges or marked by expressions of Democratic unity and camaraderie among the 10 candidates. […] Read more »
Biden’s age is a real issue. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to talk about.
In Thursday night’s debate, Julián Castro tried out a potentially fruitful line of attack against poll leader Joe Biden. But he might have bungled the execution. While sparring over the details of health-care policy, Castro repeatedly claimed that Biden had forgotten what he said only two minutes earlier. You can […] Read more »
The Third Democratic Debate In 7 Charts
For the first time this cycle, there was just one debate night, and only 10 candidates made the cut — so now we’re trying to make sense of what happened when the front-runners shared the stage. In recent weeks, the polls have shown a top tier of three to five […] Read more »
What Happened When The Front-Runners Were All On Stage
The three polling leaders — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — shared a debate stage for the first time Thursday night. From the spin room floor in Houston, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast broke down who came out on top and who struggled. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Democratic Debate Analysis: Who Has the Right to Question Biden’s Competence?
It’s likely that even those analysts who love to declare winners, losers, and game-changing moments (a practice largely eschewed here at Honest Graft) won’t find all that much fodder in Thursday night’s Democratic debate. The biggest pre-debate media hype focused on the opportunity for a dramatic personal showdown between Joe […] Read more »