A bitter debate among the last-chance candidates augurs ill for the Democrats
With Sanders storming ahead as the likely nominee, debate descends into a fight for the moral high ground, writes Andrew Naughtie
Pete Buttigieg, formerly the candidate of youthful optimism, had turned pessimistic by the start of last night’s debate.
“I am not looking forward,” he declared, “to a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump, with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s, and Bernie Sanders, with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s.”
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