Qualifying for the first Democratic presidential debate was the easy part. Now comes the challenge of preparing for it
Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Kamala Harris are among those who recently started focusing on debate preparations. An aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren told POLITICO that while it’s still too early to intensely strategize for the debate, it’s also a challenge “when we don't know who we will be on stage with until a few days out” and said it would be “hard to have a moment” with 10 people competing for airtime.
For lesser-known candidates such as Swalwell, the debates present an opportunity to gain a much-needed step in the primary. In a recent call among Inslee’s advisers about the upcoming debates, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s criticism of President Donald Trump as a “chaos candidate” in 2016 came up as an example of how one-liners can fall flat. Several other candidates have made similar calculations, with one adviser to a lower-tier candidate saying, “You can’t be artificial about this … Voters see through it when candidates deliver a zinger.
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