Perspective: No studio audience and an elbow bump: the Biden-Sanders debate was a study in contrasts
Former vice president Joe Biden stood with notably erect posture. His red tie was standard issue. His crisp white shirt reflected light onto his face as he periodically looked down to flip the pages of his legal pad. He squinted at the three moderators, clutched a pen in his right hand and seemed to draw focus from the invigorating momentum he now has in the delegate race.
To his left, Sen. Bernie Sanders hunched forward in a dark suit that looked a tad too big. He was a study in gray. His suit read as charcoal. His tie was a sober blue-gray. And his shirt continued the drab color story. Sanders was a human storm cloud — all hectoring darkness. A voice of doom.Sanders used every hand gesture in his rich repertoire. He pointed and jabbed and stretched his fingers wide and palmed the air. He waved his arms for emphasis and in frustration.
, the tanking economy, the shuttered everything, the hoarding of toilet paper and the rise of a now-inescapable question: “Will we survive this?”Sanders’s outrage was aimed at, of all things, getting a more comprehensive explanation of Biden’s historical policy positions on Social Security — positions that in some cases go back to when neither of them was old enough to qualify for it.
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