“For two thirds of the candidates, the 10 minutes they get on the stage has enormous consequences,” says davidaxelrod. “If the debates come and go and you haven’t made a ripple … you’re going to have a confrontation with reality”
last week: “You expose voters to negative information about an opponent, but the problem is that voters also tend to punish the attacker.” Does any Democrat want to get punished this early in the race? Typically candidates wait to sharpen their knives until later in the race, as the primaries near.
But the debates will also test something else: 16 months before Election Day, are Americans as ready for this presidential campaign as insiders are? That’s the running assumption in the press. Democratic enthusiasm and anti-Trump fervor fueled record turnout during the midterm elections, and even the no-name candidates are drawing substantial crowds in the primary states. The campaign is already saturating cable news and Twitter.
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