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Democratic Debate Insta-reaction | The Press Box

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Elizabeth Warren playing the front-runner, Joe Biden keeping it simple, and Pete Buttigieg having a chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the ringer here with your

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instant reaction to the October 15th Democratic debate.

0:22.5

David this was the fourth round of Democratic debates.

0:25.3

It took place in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio.

0:28.2

And I think we should cut right to tonight's top story, which is that Senator Elizabeth

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Warren is the front runner in this race.

0:35.8

And the reason we can say that is because 11 Democrats on stage treated her that way

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tonight and had tacked her that way tonight.

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First up was Warren's Medicare for All plan.

0:48.6

Now she will not say out loud that it involves raising taxes as part of the plan's attempt

0:53.2

to offset that with greater medical savings for the middle class.

0:56.9

While tonight Mayor Pete Buttigieg was the first to pounce on that.

1:01.6

Listen to what he said.

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A yes or no question that didn't get a yes or no answer.

1:07.0

Look this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general

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and Capitol Hill in particular.

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Your signature senator is to have a plan for everything except this.

1:18.4

No plan has been laid out to explain how a multi trillion dollar hole in this Medicare

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for all plan that Senator Warren is putting forward is supposed to get filled in.

1:29.7

It was it was a good line of attack by Pete Buttigieg and Buttigieg had a really good night.

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All things considered.

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But I think I think in the grand scheme of things Elizabeth Warren with stood a lot of

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