joe biden with within that place. i will push back. i remember 2007 very well. barack obama actually i was doing the polling. barack obama took the lead in south carolina. i will dispel the idea that black people in south carolina are waiting around for white people in iowa to make a decision before they broke for him. we put in a grassroots effort campaign to introduce who barack obama was and connect him there with voters. that s how you ll win over african-american voters in south carolina and across the nation, making your case, not necessarily attacking hillary clinton. we never at tacked hillary clinton really at all during that campaign, certainly among around black issues. yes, you re right, bill clinton did not help. i thought what was true last night, what felt true was that there was a lot of substance there, that there was something, it felt different having those ten if we want call to call them ten front-runners on stage together. i also think while a lot of folks
there were so many republicans on stage. do you lurt yourself as a party by going after the front-runner or front-runners, not on policy, but in a way sure. i lived through hillary clinton. i m here to say that when you attack the front-runner personally, that can damage the party overall and depress turnout when it comes time to need it in the general election. i think that every candidate should be very careful when they re trying to critique the other candidates in the race on personal terms. i see this a little bit differently than the rest of the pundits. while i agree with the premise that it was a little bit mean-spirited, i think joe biden can handle it. if he cannot handle it, he can t be the nominee of the party. he needs to be able to take some critiques. he s been in the race a couple of months and they re already complaining about the fact that he has faced unprecedented attacks. hillary clinton would like a word.
that line she s for bernie, i m for barack, is probably as clean of a destill lags of health care on bernie sanders and elizabeth warren as you re likely to hear. the two traded a couple of shots. biden s lines for, as a socialist you have a much higher opinion of corporate entities than i do is what caught my attention. bernie coming back to make a point about what he essentially argued was biden s judgment in voting in favor of the iraq war. eltz conditions to play error-free baseball but not engaging with the other candidates. that s worked for her thus far. i m also interested in the performance of the two texans. you had beto o rourke s moment, both about racism and, hell yes, i will take your ar-15, ak-47, that has generated a lot of conversation, especially here in texas. o rourke has struggled in the first two debates. he appeared to finally find his
yet he continues to have so much support within i ve got to jump in here. joe biden is currently leading this race largely on the backs of how strong he s run among minority candidates. we saw senator harris attack vice president biden earlier on in this, and frankly, her numbers didn t move with african-americans and biden s didn t either. my problem is with the con ternts of what castro said. joe biden will take hits as a front-runner and will have to take those hits and stand there. if you re trying to make your way up the polls by going personally after joe biden, i ve got to tell you, that s a strategic mistake. those african-american voters who, by the way, again, like joe biden and favorable to joe biden just like they like hillary clinton and were favorable to hillary clinton in 2008.
particular moment, i think that was the weak point in the debate last night. that was going to be my next question about what seemed to be a fall-off, some people have suggested, in the third hour of the debate and you get asked very specifically about reparations and your answer is that you should play a record player? it was completely out of touch, but i think it goes to the heart of essentially what julian castro inartfully tried to point out in that exchange which is, is joe biden the candidate for this particular moment with this particular coalition of voters that we need to turn out in order to win? in order to mirror the obama coalition, you ll need black millennials to turn out. i m a black millennial. when i hear joe biden answer a question about slavery when the question was, you said i shouldn t have to pay and be responsible for what happened 300 years ago, that s wildly offensive, on its face.