been unlocked. they are in contention. and we will have a seat at the table. we ve got a president who is revoking security clearances against his political enemies, in which he is talking about banning muslims from the united states and campaigning on that. doing sorts of things that are unimaginable even in a dystopian version of american governance but we are living it now. especially when the republican party is now led by donald trump and his supporters, that feels different than it might coming out of president obama or any other recent time. the idea of abolishing the electoral college as you suggested. the idea of expanding the supreme court to 15 seats with a different method of picking judges. i feel like those are bold, structural ideas about protecting our democracy. it also feels like we re sort of balanced on tiptoe right now in terms of our
republicans kept up with this undercard format actually for the whole primary season, for seven debates. if being relegated to the kids table debate wasn t humiliating enough, there were headlines and leads like these that really didn t help underdog debaters get harsh question, why do you matter? quote, the sad side show of the republican undercard. for this lead, quote, the undercard republican debate was a lot like a night out at arby s. the three candidates served up plenty of red meat that no one really wanted to eat. that s mean to arby s. and that said, even after they ultimately phased out the undercard debates late in the process because people had dropped out of the race and so they could fit them all on one stage, the republican debates still had logistical problems. there was this memorable pile up backstage when they were trying to do the otherwise simple task of getting all the candidates on stage for a debate. that really didn t work. florida senator marco rubio.