here, yes, the front-runner was a pinata last night but he was not alone of the at times it seemed like candidates were debating not just biden s record, but also the record of president obama too. today joe biden defended his former boss and pal. i must tell you, i was a little surprised at how much incoming was about barack, about the president. i m proud of having served with him. i m proud of the job he did. i don t think there s anything he has to apologize for. i think, you know, it kind of surprised me the degree of the criticism. and he focused on immigration. and what he did was serious. the idea that somehow it s comparable to what this guy is doing is absolutely bizarre. there s nothing moderate about what barack did in obamacare. nothing. he covered 100 million people who had pre-existing conditions. he allowed kids to stay on their parents policies until they re 26 years old. he covered 20 million more
do that. of course when you re the front-runner like joe biden, you re going to be the one as you indicated who has the kick me sign on your back. but there is a way to do this where you re not attacking every single policy monumental some of these policies were monumental like the passage of obamacare, that president obama, who still has a 97% approval rating, that you can go about attacking these policies, criticizing them without attacking the person who actually put them in office. i think some of the candidates on the stage last night, some folks, this is probably going to be their last debate. perhaps mayor bill de blasio was in a hail mary mode trying to figure out how can i still have a viral moment that might catapult me to the next debate. but i m not sure that going at it the way that they did made a lot of sense. and to your point, look, it does give donald trump a talking point tonight. i m sure he s going to go into his rally and talk about the fact that he was not re
and unaffordability of health care in america in a way that offers health care to everybody. vice president biden s plan doesn t do that. for other 2020 candidates, today was also a day to brag about the donations they brought in post-debate. senator bernie sanders announced his campaign had raised another $2 million from more than 100,000 donations on tuesday and wednesday combined. andrew yang s campaign said that they received more than $250,000 from the yang gang since his appearance last night. washington governor jay inslee saying he brought in more than 10,000 donations yesterday putting him just shy of 100,000 donors. now, of course, 100,000 donors isn t enough to propel you on to the next debate in houston next month. so far only seven of the 24 candidates running have cleared the bar of 2% in at least two polls and 130,000 donors needed to punch their ticket for the next debate.
popular, barack obama is the last guy to win a huge electoral margin as well as a huge margin of the popular vote. he won 51%, a clear win, 51% in 2012 and 2016 it went below. he won by 10 million votes the first time. he was extremely popular. 94%, 95% popularity with democrats. just as a political matter, should there be a democratic version of the 11th commandment, that you do not speak ill of the former democratic president. this is the model and we want to build on what he did but you never attack him. yeah, joy, i certainly think so. i can t quite figure out what the strategy was with some of these campaigns last night. it should be no surprise that karine and i both agree on this. when you re doing debate prep, going in to meet with a candidate to talk about how we re going to approach the debates, what attacks you re going to lodge, how you re going to draw a contrast, it s fine to