How should Joe answer Bernie's questions. I don't have the

[patricia92243]

slightest idea what he should say. At least Joe will be prepared.

[msongs]

1. bernie is not interested in joe's answers IMO nt

[Thekaspervote]

5. This!! It's more about I gotcha crap..sanders isn't even very good at that, so why?

[SunSeeker]

13. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Since when does a debate participant get to ask the questions?

[comradebillyboy]

3. Is Bernie moderating the debate?

I thought the network people got to ask questions, not the candidates.

[patricia92243]

14. the moderators love a good fight and can be depended on to

help that happen.

[beachbumbob]

4. so this debate is going allow candidates to ask direct questions? Oh boy, bernie's tiresome answers

we be coming. Biden: How do we pay for y0our ___________? Bernie: I don't know, I'm not a detail guy but we could tax the fuck out the rich and pay for a free life for al.

[mobeau69]

6. Yep, like the pitcher signaling the batter what the next pitch is going to be.

Of course, his friend Joe will be in the batter's box.

[nolabear]

7. He wants to front load it so if his agenda isn't followed he can claim unfair.

Who's moderating? Do we know? They'd better have a whip and a chair.

[Demsrule86]

8. He should not answer any of Bernie's BS questions. He should politely turn it back over to the

moderators, and I think the debate should be cancelled because of the pandemic.

[frazzled]

9. I just hope the debate moderators don't even go there

I hope their questions are focused on addressing Trump policies, not getting the two candidates to attack each other, as they usually do.
(Fat chance.)

Of course, to Sanders it won't matter anyway, because whatever he is asked, the answer always turns back to the billionaires and the establishment and the same yada yada. But two can play at that game. No matter what is asked, or what is said, Biden should just use the opportunity to turn the conversation back to Trump and the Republicans.

[Zeus69]

10. How about

“You’re crazy as shit!”

[FM123]

11. Make a tv ad, put it out in advance - day before debate. Inoculate him.

Pre-emptive strike always knocks Bernie off balance, hence the freak out when Pete & Amy dropped out before Super Tuesday.

(BTW Bloomberg churned out tv ads faster than you could blink, sometimes the day after trumpy's nonsense, maybe his ad team can help).

[SunSeeker]

12. I don't think Bernie really has questions. nt

[Jarqui]

15. No, not sincere questrions

Bernie is trying to present these issues as things Joe has no answer for.

But for example healthcare:
Joe, like many of us, would like M4A but like many of us, is concerned about how difficult it would to pass and pay for. So Joe advocates for a public option and other things to improve Obamacare that are viable politically and financially.

It's not the $35 trillion answer Bernie likes but it is an answer that 1.5 million more voters for Biden than Bernie so far have accepted.

Joe could go through the list. He has answered these things.

If I'm Joe, I'm probably having a discussion as to whether to bother to debate him.