Thursday night’s debate offers a final opportunity for Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to woo New York voters ahead of the Democratic primary on Tuesday.
The two candidates will face off in a two-hour exchange at the Brooklyn Navy Yard starting at 9 p.m. ET. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will moderate the event on his home network, with additional questions provided by CNN’s Dana Bash and local cable channel NY1’s Errol Louis.
The debate comes at the end of two of the most contentious weeks in the Democratic primary contest. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have been at each other’s throats about their qualifications to serve as president and have had to swat down unfortunate remarks from their surrogates.
Because New York is home to many of the country’s news outlets and the state’s primary is seen as a must-win for both candidates, all eyes are expected to be on Brooklyn Thursday night.
Still no news on whether the stage is pointed directly at Wall Street for Bernie’s finger-wagging. I guess that’s not a need to know item. : (
I hope she crushes him by keeping her cool and sending his ill temper into orbit.
Bah. Shock wave compression from Bernie finger-wagging will literally vaporize Clinton at the molecular level.
This is make-or-break for Bernie, if he loses NY he loses the rest of the NE by a similar amount, and ends up having to win everything else by 20-30 points (which isn’t going to happen, especially in CA). The question is which Bernie is going to show up tonight, the one that didn’t care about emails or the one that thinks Clinton is unqualified. Angry Bernie loses the election, but Angry Bernie may be the only chance he sees to fire up his (to this point imaginary) revolution. Should be interesting to watch.
Well, here we go. The Sanders peeps may regret insisting on another debate, because my take away from the last ones is Sen. Sanders comes off as an old curmudgeon shaking his rake at those banker kids. Of course there will be rapturous pronouncements of his performance during and after by his partisans, but real world undecideds will probably have a different take. I kept telling the Sanders campaign “Careful what you wish for” regarding another debate. It’s like their fixation on the transcripts to that Goldman speech. The subject matter was women in the industry and the issues they face. Another brought up Dodd-Frank and a call to examine what’s working, what didn’t in the 2008 meltdown. Another GS employee said she told the audience the meltdown wasn’t Goldman’s fault ( which it wasn’t ) and that some other dark entities may need regulating. Is that going to hurt her ? Doubtful. It will probably help. Unless you’re convinced we don’t need banks in our financial system. Which some of the more naive among the left appear to believe.