folk in but talking about economic opportunity, educational issues, et cetera. and one of the differences tonight is i will push back on alexander just a little bit, bernie sanders in 2016 had the same problem that bernie sanders today has which is dieseling with issues of race. tonight, however, the diversity on stage is going to make that a robust discussion. we ll have the health care discussions, but you have julian castro, you have andrew yang and tulsi gabbard and then both cory and kamala strat strataling the vice president to the first black president of the united states and those issues will come out. and you re going to have to speak to voters of color in a way that moves them. i tell everyone that i have endorsed kamala harris. i will also say that two people who are very talented at doing that is duval patrick and the other is mayor landrieu and had the ability to
their candidate. hillary rosen, alexander rojas, thanks to both of you. appreciate it. just two days until this cnn presidential debate. each night the first on tuesday july 30th with bernie sanders and elizabeth warren central. and then wednesday july 31st see the rematch potentially between joe biden, kamala harris, the democratic presidential candidates live from detroit only on cnn. all right, still ahead, the white house doubles down. some officials even say the president s tweets attacking congressman elijah cummings were not racially offensive, but there are many others who see it very differently. plus, the father whose twin babies died in a hot car has his first appearance in court. the latest on that coming up. what about him? let s do it. [ sniffing ]
prices. he s part of that first round of debate participants on tuesday night. for more on this week s debates let s bring in democratic strategist elizabeth rosen and alexander rojas. good to see both of you. side by side there in detroit. for a lot of these candidates this will be the last chance to make their case why they should stay in the race and moval onto the third debate, the cnn debate come september. in your view, hillary, do you believe they will try to stand out by policy or stand out by trying to, you know, attack somebody else that they may be sharing the stage with? well, and it s going to be hard to get attention tonight i mean on tuesday night because you ll have the big dynamo matchup with elizabeth warren
alexander rojas, both are cnn political commentators. so, palm, this was a solicit all of a sudden the other candidates at least a few of them are talking fairly directly, very thinly veiled about joe biden. why? because they re trying to differentiate themself with the fronts runner. the saying in nascar, rubbing is racing. i don t have any problem whatsoever. we say the most epic clash between hillary and barack produced a stronger nominee. i have a high degree of acceptance for going at it. i would caution, though, that iowa democratic caucus attendees are like me, they re not hateful people who love attacks. they re getting careful not to upset people in iowa to have a negative campaign. alexander, do you think we
acceptance for going at it. i would caution, though, that iowa democratic caucus attendees are not like me, they re not hateful people who love attacks. they re getting careful not to upset people in iowa to have a negative campaign. alexander, do you think we will hear more of this or do you think it s a smart move? i think we will hear plenty more of this. we haven t entered the first debate yet. we are nine months away from the first election. so i think this is the first to come. i think nobody mentioned him directly by name. so like you said it was thinly veiled. i think we saw some candidates get an applause, right? some candidates get booing. particularly with hickenlooper and delaney, it wasn t you know necessarily just them, it was about their approach to politics and the policy positions that they were espousing, which align very, very closely to joe biden and you also probably will