Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned

after the show for a message from the National Retail Federation. I'm Jake Sherman. Ask yourself

this question after last night's debate. Are you at all certain who will emerge from the Iowa

caucus victorious? Did any candidate have a breakout moment that will absolutely wow voters with

19 days remaining. It seems

equally probable that Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders could win Iowa, and possible that Pete Buttigieg

or Elizabeth Warren could place in the top three or win, leaving an infinite amount of scenarios

for Democrats to ponder. Nancy Pelosi's delay in sending the impeachment articles to the Senate will

have an impact, as Sanders, Warren and Amy Klobuchar will have to be in

Washington nearly all day every day for the next month or so, limiting their ability to connect with

voters face-to-face in the days leading up to the caucus. With two billionaires, Tom Steyer and

Michael Bloomberg, willing to spend a seemingly endless amount of their own money, the nominating

process could take a very different shape. Meanwhile, Ryan Lizin notes that for the first time in this

debate cycle, last night, foreign policy featured prominently. He also writes that the parties now

divided into camps in the post-Obama world, those like Biden, who were chastened by failed military

interventions over the last two decades and the Sanders camp, which is defined by

its opposition to the Iraq war. Elizabeth Warren took on the Bernie Sanders, women can't win

charge directly in the debate. She said, so can a woman beat Donald Trump? Look at the men on this

stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections.

The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women.

The New York Times has a White House memo up looking at how Trump's team is now focused on Bernie Sanders and also Michael Bloomberg, who the president himself has been closely watching.

The Biden campaign has a new ad in rotation in Iowa, up in

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