The Third Democratic Debate

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Just 10 candidates qualified for the stage in Houston, but that didn’t change some recurring themes: Joe Biden was again the target of fierce scrutiny, and health care was a central point of contention. But what else did we learn? Guest: Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading:Attacks on Mr. Biden highlighted the divide over the Obama legacy, with the former vice president repeatedly invoking his old boss’s name.Many Democrats hoped that defeating an unpopular, rampaging president would be relatively simple. But party officials are wary of some potential vulnerabilities that this debate re-emphasized.Here are six takeaways from the contest.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barlow.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:09.2	Today.
0:11.7	Just 10 Democratic candidates qualified for the third debate in Houston.
0:17.2	Alex Barnes on what a debate looks like when it gets less crowded.
0:23.4	It's Friday, September 13th.
0:34.6	Okay, so we are going to talk about the debate.
0:40.4	I was actually here for Brexit.
0:43.2	And we're going to do it in a manner that might allow us to be done by midnight.
0:46.8	Okay.
0:47.3	That'd be great.
0:48.0	And yeah, it's the plan.
0:59.0	Alex, I wonder if there was a meaningful difference in this third democratic debate
1:03.0	because the field has narrowed so much.
1:06.0	I think there's a huge difference that now we're down to a group of people
1:09.0	who have really demonstrated that democratic voters are considering them
1:13.0	seriously for the presidency in the first couple debates that we had.
1:17.0	The stage was so cluttered with people who were essentially these bit players
1:21.0	who existed solely to attack other candidates or raise drama or tension of various kinds.
1:26.0	You had John Delaney who seemed like he was solely there to attack Elizabeth Warren
1:30.0	and Bernie Sanders.
1:31.0	You had Eric Swalwell, a Congressman from California,
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