for the democratic party. kamala harris tried to walk certain details, basically she signed onto bernie s medicare for all and in favor of doing away with private insurance. elizabeth warren same thing, moderators didn t follow up. isn t this the kind of thing maybe the press isn t focused on now but kamala harris has had to answer this question repeatedly, multiple media on this issue and she s caught flak from the media. the challenge with the debate structure especially this, my hats off to the dnc for turing in a way that tried to create some control, you know, organize some chaos, you can t really dive too deep into any questions when you got 10 people on stage
heard from the former vice president. what did you think of how he was trying to defend himself, clean up his comments on bussing from last night. i think every candidate is going to talk about their vision for america. and every voter is going to make a judgment, looking at the totality of what the candidate has done throughout their career. they re going to ask themselves, does that candidate based on the work they ve done, do they share my values, do they have my back? and can they win? that s the question that people are going to ask about every candidate, and what we re trying to do in our debate structure, and we ve taken unprecedented steps to be inclusive, is to have these debates and candidate forums and other forums for them to articulate what they believe, it s going to be up to the voters to figure out, who has my back, who s fighting for me, what i was so excited about over
the road with you and you are vigorous in campaigning, and how do you get the issues in front of the american people if you have two-tiered debate structure with 20 or 30 people dividing the democratic party and not sign ing t signing the one or two or five people who are best capable of challenging? well, we will do it, andrea, by asking people like yourself, and msnbc, and nbc and abc to talk about the burning issues facing the american people so that the american people can then determine with which candidate, republican, democrat or whatever is addressing those issues. but you have heard me say a million times, andrea, and let me mention it again right now, we need serious discussion in this country on serious issues, and we have to can do it in congress, and we have to do e it in do it in the media, and our job is to give the views on those issues and let the american people decide who they believe can do a good job in
i will play devil s advocate for a second here. so in order to get on this bill, there is something called a motion to proceed which is a simple majority. 51 votes to get back to restart debate that kind of fell apart last time. the question is, if republicans, if john mccain votes for that, if they get 51 republicans to vote for that, can they resolve some of these differences, some of the senators problems in an amendment, a debate format, a debate structure. i would say no. my inclination is no. john mccain says i m not doing this on a partisan basis but the aides and members i have been texting with the last 20, 30 minutes, they seem to think this is not dead and this could be resurrected if they could just get on the floor and patch this up through the amendment process. before september 30th? john mccain, i agree with kasie she s shaking her head and rolling her eyes. i don t know if you see that
cnn, graham is criticizing the party two-tier debate structure. those numbers kept him on the under card stage. people like what i say, but not many people hear it. this process started in a strange way. you could not get on the main stage unless you polled at a certain level. if you never run before, that is hard. if you don t come from a political family, that is hard. if you come from a small state, that is hard. here is what i would advise the republican party to do in the future. never do this again. word from the republican candidate that the ben carson campaign is bleeding cash. according to budget documents by the wall street journal the carson campaign raised $8.8 million in october and spent more than that. the campaign spent more than it raised because it prepaid for direct mail and advertising. the documents show that the