'It was obvious from the beginning that the DemDebate was not meant to be a conversation about issues, but a platform for good TV'
That on its face could serve a benefit — after all, candidates are eagerly chasing Republican votes to oust Donald Trump. But moderators made matters more confusing when they began interrupting the candidates with follow-up questions. There’s a separate time and place for continuous follow-up questions from journalists — it’s called an interview.
Candidates are meant to inform the American public about their own positions, thereby challenging other candidates who may have differing ideas. But even they seemed to veer entirely off-course, choosing instead to stick prepared landings and hit key talking points than contribute to the topic at hand. Case in point: Bernie Sanders, who brought up the 10-20-30 plan in response to a question about reparations —.
The questions themselves also seemed geared towards not just interrogating differences, but stoking fights. Amy Klobuchar, for example, was asked which of the candidates on stage didn’t seem “genuine” about their platforms; moderators posed other candidates with the question of whether Sanders’ Medicare-For-All plan was “political suicide.
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