The 4th Debate. Bill Gets the Insider Reaction from Ohio
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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12 candidates for President onstage. Bill is in the Spin Room to get instant reaction from reporters and the candidates themselves. Who did well? Who did poorly? What impact will it have on the race for the nomination to take on Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to a special edition of the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:11.1 | For Democratic primary debate number four, you know, it wasn't supposed to turn out this way. |
| 0:17.8 | The number of candidates on stage was actually supposed to shrink as time went on. |
| 0:22.6 | Instead, it's just the opposite. The number has grown. There were 10 Democrats on stage |
| 0:29.6 | for the last debate in Houston. There were 12 on stage last night at Otterbine University |
| 0:36.6 | in Westerville, Ohio, just outside of Columbus. |
| 0:41.3 | So who had a good night? |
| 0:43.3 | Who had not such a good night? |
| 0:46.3 | Did anybody really stand out? |
| 0:48.3 | And in effect, did anybody eliminate themselves from the running? |
| 0:53.3 | Well, those are some of the questions I took |
| 0:55.7 | with me following the debate to my fellow reporters in the spin room. Gabe de Benedetti, |
| 1:03.2 | coming up first here from New York Magazine. Gabe, you see how many, four or five of these |
| 1:08.3 | debates so far. Did tonight anybody make any |
| 1:11.0 | difference? Well, obviously Tom is going to tell. I think there are a few things that are pretty |
| 1:15.3 | striking here. Bernie Sanders proving that he's still very much literally alive and kicking |
| 1:19.7 | and politically alive and kicking here had a pretty strong performance. It's very telling how |
| 1:24.0 | Pete Buttigieg came out swinging as well. He clearly had a strategy of going after people, including Elizabeth Warren, pretty hard. But the thing that just keeps sticking out to me is how much more Warren spoke than everyone else. That's because everyone acknowledges she's really the frontrunner now. They all seem to want to pick a fight in some way with Elizabeth Warren. Yeah, well, I think we're kind of at the point in this race where a lot of them are saying we have to force a difference now. |
| 1:45.7 | And with Warren, you know, not really going after any of them by name, it's a time for |
| 1:49.9 | a lot of them to say, well, there are some pretty big differences here. |
| 1:53.6 | And you know, now that voters are really paying attention, I think it's time. |
| 1:56.5 | If there's one difference, it seemed to be the bold idea versus the kind of more secure or safer path. |
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