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Greetings nerdcasters. Welcome to our special debate night edition of the

Nerd Cast where we're watching from the Media

Filing Center on the campus of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

I'm here to help me break apart a key moment that we feel summed up the night's ABC

news debate which incidentally is the last one before New Hampshire Democrats vote

on February 11th is Elena Schneider who covers Pete Budajaj and the 2020 campaign.

Elena, thanks for joining us.

Hey Scott, thanks for having me.

And now this is how you spend the Friday night, am I right?

Yeah, well there's nothing quite like being hunched over microphones in the back of a, what appears to be some

kind of gymnasium on a Friday night right before midnight.

We're having lots of fun.

All right, so we just watch this debate

with about 400 other journalists in this viewing space

and we are going to break apart a key moment.

So this moment in the debate started with the candidates going back and forth

about their health care plans and Pete Buda Judge starts touting his perspective on things

as a politician from outside Washington.

And as to experience, I just bring a different perspective.

Look, I freely admit that if you're looking for the person with the most years

of Washington establishment experience under their belt.

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