Democrats split between the radicals and the St. Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,

form an unlikely team up, and Marianne Williamson comes away with a surprise victory and also crystals.

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Marianne, Marianne, Marianne, Marianne. It was great. Okay, so it was Democratic debate.

Round two, fight night one.

It happened to all last network, we can go through all of it.

We're going to explain why Marianne Williamson, her big night actually had kind of some import to it.

I'll explain in just one second.

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is the other one. Tonight is the one with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

and Cory Booker and it's going to be all race all the time. Can old Joe get up off the man?

But last night was fascinating for another reason. It really highlighted the division inside the

Democratic Party between the sane and the insane. The insane right now have their hands on the steering

wheel. When I say the insane, I mean the people who are proposing massive, radical change to the United States. People like Elizabeth Warren, people like Bernie Sanders. People, yes, like Pete Buttigieg, who originally came out as a moderate and then has sort of backtracked ever since all the way to the point where he is now suggesting you're a bad Christian if you don't support his ideas on minimum wage. And so there is this radical wing of the party. Then there is the moderate wing of the party.

And actually last night on the stage, the moderates outnumbered the radicals. The moderates on

stage, folks like Amy Klobuchar and Tim Ryan from Ohio and John Delaney, who actually showed

pretty well former congressperson and Steve Bullock from

Montana. And what these divisions between the radicals and the same showed is that when asked

very simple questions, the radicals simply could not defend their policies. They're running far left

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