Bernie Sanders under siege in the latest TV challenge between Democratic candidates in the White House before the primaries in South Carolina (Saturday) and Super Tuesday (March 3). And it could not be otherwise, with the moderates on stage who tried in every way to put the socialist senator, the current frontrunner and more than ever launched in the nomination race, into difficulties. While Elizabeth Warren, the other progressive candidate, unable to hit Sanders for the agenda similar to hers, Michael Bloomberg has come back to lash, with the former Mayor of New York who had to collect the accusations of sexism and discrimination on the spot again of work. But also those of having done business with China and not wanting to disclose its tax returns.
The result was a chaotic evening, of which the moderators at times risked losing control. To the delight of President Donald Trump and the many Republicans who cheered on Twitter for divisions within the opposing front. Divisions - and this is also the concern of the establishment of the democratic party - which ultimately risk benefiting the tycoon and its re-election on 3 November.
And with Trump, a remote duel was also staged on the coronavirus affair, after the federal health authorities warned against a surge in cases almost certain even in the United States. And if the dem candidates - one of the few points on which they agreed - attacked the Trump administration's emergency management, also accusing it of having cut the health funds, the president did not think about it twice and replied live on Twitter: "My administration is doing a great job, including the immediate closure of our borders to certain areas of the world. A measure that the Democrats were against."
The result, he added, is that so far there has been no casualties in the US. Sanders had to defend himself from the accusations of being helped by Russia ("not true") and of defending Fidel Castro's Cuba ("I said the same things as Obama"), but above all from pursuing an agenda progressive who risks making Donald Trump win again. "Putin wants Trump's reelection and that's why Russia is helping you," attacked a slightly more effective and comfortable Bloomberg than in the previous televised debate.