My predictions for tonight:

• Steyer and Yang will be irrelevant, but will both try to make a big point to gain visibility.
• Klobuchar will tout doing almost as well as Biden, and try again to say she’s the best candidate to unify the party and win the midwest. No one will believe this because of Pete.
• Pete and Bernie will go to war, expect Bernie to be Bernie and talk about Pete’s billionaires, while Pete will get mad and really hit at Bernie on socialism. It will likely be the ugliest portion of any debate to this point.
• Biden will finally be forced to debate, as he has to show relevance and that he can take on the two winners from Iowa. Look for him to tout his experience against Pete, and his unifying force compared to Bernie…and to make a big gaffe late in the debate.
• Warren may be ignored by everyone, as she did ok but is being counted out going forward. That may give her the room to talk policy and about how Trump is the target, which could be a bigger counterpoint than usual if fireworks start to fly.

The NH debate can have a big effect on the primary, and this one is more uncertain with so many candidates so close and Iowa such a quagmire. I think the biggest opportunity here is for Warren…she almost always wins the debates, if she doesn’t get dragged into the fracas she’ll look much better than the other candidates. I don’t think Bernie or Pete will avoid hitting each other, and both of them have shown in past debates that they get angry when someone hits them…if that escalates then they may score points but not look very good. Biden would be best served by being the statesman, but there’s a whiff of panic coming from his campaign so odds are he’ll try to take out the two Iowa winners.

Of course, it may be just like all the other ones, with little drama and lots of boring repeating of positions, but I think this is the debate that will finally see haymakers thrown.

I don’t care about any of this nonsense. I want to know how these candidates view the content of their post-Trump presidencies. I want to know what they think about what (most of them were involved in) went down this past week. I want to know how they feel about the Vindmans being relieved of their positions. I don’t give two rats about M4A, the feud between Liz and Bernie, socialism, or even Iowa. I want to know how their campaigns are going to move forward in light of the events of the past week. How will their focus change. What do they hope to highlight; accomplish.

Stop with the BS or just show cat videos for the two hours - it’ll be more helpful.

Must read article:

“We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

Why the longtime Democratic strategist is “scared to death” of the 2020 election.

I’ve always had a love/dislike relationship with Carville but the thing about him which is so compelling is he’s smart,savvy and he gets right to the root of the problems. He’s needs to be back on the political landscape.