and 20 candidates later. let s get a final checkup of the performance of the moderators tonight from howard. your take? the moderators didn t have to work as hard as last night, these democrats came ready to rumble. the heated debate it was heated for much of the night turned on the kouchbter punching and personal attacks. the moderators made a decision to give a lot of time to joe biden and kamala harris to continue the slugfest, saw a much more energized and prepared joe biden. that was the right decision, they are the top two contenders on the stage. here s dana bash with pointed questions for senator harris and the former v.p. vice president biden s campaign calls your plan, quote, a have it every which way approach and says it s just part of a confusing pattern of equivocating about your medical stance. he said in the past democrats
russell senate office building, senator kuntz, a surrogate for the vice president. i m a friend of his, he had a good night. there were 10 candidates on that stage and i think 7 or 8 of them were literally attacking him n the dead center of the stage, in the center of the fire and he demonstrated he s fully capable of pushing back. i look nord to sees him on the debate stage with president trump, it will be an engaging conversation. did you think that any of the attacks were disingenuous, were they too calculated or was it a fair critique or fair question of hills record? what i think joe showed tonight, is that while he has said since he got into the campaign, that democrats attacking each they are on the debate stage is not constructive, in miami he was genuinely surprised that some of these made an attack that
exception of congresswoman gabbard, she ll be our guest m a few minutes. you mention socialism, it s something that pete buttigieg brought up on night one last night, he said no matter what we propose from the stage whether it lanes left or right, the democrats the republicans in the white house and this report going to try to call us social interests whether it s accurate or not, it scares voters out there. how do you respond to him? well, listen to the policies. they re for open border, they re for taking away any private health insurance so you can only have it from government, they want to guarantee an income even if you re able to work but unwilling to work. that is the prime definition for socialism. the green new deal, dictating from your house whether we can have a dairy, whether you can fly. remember castro, remember what castro was saying there, all of them agreed, they ee for an open border. this is socialism at its best.
times, in muddled way at times, is playing defense on barack obama s legacy. but most democratic voters, the vast majority of democratic voters, view obama s legacy positively although i disagree do most voters on the independent side of things as well. it s a huge advantage for biden that he s almost getting, by default, and i wonder how long they re going to keep letting him win on that terrain. shannon: quickly, literally, one word from you or two if you use both names. who was the winner of the night, molly? mary ann williamson. molly. thanks s not my answer. joe biden is the answer. i think biden. although he wasn t great. biden. shannon: thanks for staying up with us, great to see on you night two of the debate. more from the spin room in detroit next. the debate.
is possible that some one like michael ben it could rise up in a flight for safety for one of the sentist or moderate choices. my final point is that last night we had the most searched member of the stage beak maryanne williamson. i think you will see andrew yang get a bunch of searchs tonight. he has a lot of donors, a lot of attention. but he was concise, focused, personal. i would expect that he s going to make that third debate stage. shannon? shannon: and he made a plea for that, as they all did tonight. he s one that talked about universal basic income for everyone and tried to talk about that in the context of michigan and you a automation that s making away a lot of jobs and he fears that s going to go across all of american industry. yeah, a breakout night for him, we ve seen cory booker and others doing well as well. bret thanks for being with us