Wednesday and Thursday nights saw four hours worth of NBC News moderators asking questions to 20 Dems seeking the party’s nomination. As Newsbusters has helped demonstrate, if any of the candidates came off looking bad, it wasn’t for lack of the moderators teeing up some easy questions:
NBC/MSNBC’s Two-Night Donation to Democratic Dreams. #DemDebate #DemDebate2 #DemDebate2020 pic.twitter.com/myFCjDYd0Z
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) June 28, 2019
People went to a couple of debates and softball games broke out, as many others also noticed:
And NBC. Softball debates with zero real challenges to anything they say does not help the Democratic Party.
— Joel (@Happyja) June 28, 2019
There wasn't one of them that faced a tough question. It was a softball debate.
— Matthew Bigham (@onebigham) June 28, 2019
both of these debates are clusters with nothing but softball questions @NBCNews It is truly a joke
— Jimmy Burris (@JBurrisRealtor) June 28, 2019
Maybe CNN will have some tougher questions for the candidates next month. *Eye roll*
Next round of 2020 debates
Dates: July 30 & 31
Network: CNN
City: Detroit— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) June 28, 2019
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