Benjy Sarlin explains how the ‘Israel Issue’ could cost Dems Anthony Weiner’s old seat today in New York’s 9th district.

There was some disagreement among the staffers at TPM tonight about who did well and who didn’t in tonight’s debate. I thought it was another weak performance by Perry. Yes, he got off a number of lines that got applause from this crowd. But he mainly did it by doubling down on toxic lines of rhetoric like his suggestion that the Fed Chair might be guilty of treason. His attempts to walk back his earlier comments about Social Security struck me as confused and strained. (See the back and forth with Mitt on Social Security.) Read More

Relive the moment when Rick Santorum mixed up “illegal[s]” and “Latinos”. Watch it.