{"id":39025,"date":"2020-02-20T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39025"},"modified":"2020-02-20T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:57:01","slug":"nevada-debate-big-win-for-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/nevada-debate-big-win-for-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Debate: Big Win for Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nevada debate was far more interesting than any of the earlier ones.\u00a0 In my opinion, my two favorites finished first and second.\u00a0 I was most pleased to see Elizabeth Warren so dominant that NBC couldn\u2019t okie-doke her the way ABC did in New Hampshire.\u00a0 I was also pleased to see Mike Bloomberg [R-NY]\u00a0 learn that having to buy his place on the debate stage showed that he never deserved his place there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The top six contenders for the Democratic nomination gathered Wednesday night for (what feels like) the 7,000th primary debate of the 2020 cycle. But the latest episode of the politics-themed reality show that we\u2019ve all come to know and dread was markedly livelier than its predecessors. And it isn\u2019t hard to see why. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden all came to Las Vegas desperate to improve their campaigns\u2019 flagging fortunes with a big gamble or two. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, is dispositionally incapable of allowing his newfound front-runner status to soften the edges of pugilistic populism. And Michael Bloomberg couldn\u2019t help but bring out his co-partisans\u2019 inner Robespierres.<\/p>\n

So, who won the rumble in Nevada? Here\u2019s a definitive ranking of the candidates\u2019 nights from best to worst (as measured by the subjective impressions of an exceptionally unrepresentative white man in New York City):<\/p>\n

1) Elizabeth Warren<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Massachusetts senator\u2019s campaign is probably<\/a> beyond saving. Warren entered Wednesday night\u2019s debate polling in fourth place nationally, some 15.5 points behind the front-running Bernie Sanders. Current surveys suggest she is poised to win no more than a negligible number of delegates in the Nevada caucuses, none in South Carolina, and, per FiveThirtyEight\u2019s model<\/a>, just 8 percent of 1,357 pledged delegates up for grab on Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But if there was anything Warren could do to revive her candidacy in Nevada on Wednesday night, she did it many times over. In recent weeks, the senator has tried to smooth out the rougher edges of her populist persona, in a bid to cast herself as the \u201cunity\u201d candidate<\/a> (and\/or to mitigate any potential gendered double-standard the electorate might apply toward female candidates who code as aggressive). But pugnacity is just another word for nothing left to lose. And with her campaign on the ropes, Warren reprised the role that had made her name: merciless inquisitor of the superrich and powerful.<\/p>\n

Within minutes of the debate\u2019s opening, Warren stopped the show, threw the nearest billionaire up against a wall, frisked him \u2014 and revealed that beneath the would-be emperor\u2019s gilded fa\u00e7ade<\/a> lay little more than an empty suit\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Please click through for the rest of the article. After Warren, the authors list, in order of finish, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar , and Mike Bloomberg. I agree, except that I would put Pete in third and Joe in fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to watch the entire debate:\u00a0<\/span>Watch The Full NBC News\/MSNBC Democratic Debate In Las Vegas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

For a debate summary\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Highlights Of The Democratic Debate In 5 Minutes<\/a><\/p>\n