Biden and Bernie hug it out in the New Hampshire Democratic debate
Former Vice President Joe Biden embraces Sen. Bernie Sanders during a Democratic presidential primary debate.The Iowa caucus — with its botched vote count and split decision — had left many progressives with jittery nerves, worried that a factionalized Democratic party, with no clear frontrunner, might fail to unite in the face of the Trump threat, and risk enabling his re-election.
As a result, Democratic 2020 candidates took the debate stage in New Hampshire Friday night with oddly conflicting imperatives. One: Draw sharp contrasts, to distance themselves from the other candidates. The other: Prove a capacity to unify the party, by bridging the differences among the party’s true believers.
The unity theme won out, at least for a memorable second or two, in a literal hug between the standard bearers of the establishment and insurgency wings of the party. ABC News moderator Linsey Davis teed up the moment with a question about Hillary Clinton, the 2016 nominee who — far from preaching unity — has been throwing bombs at the progressive wing of the party, and in particular at her old rival, Sanders.
Citing an infamous line from a new Hulu documentary, Davis quoted Clinton as saying of Sanders that “nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him. He’s got nothing done.”
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