Usa 2020: Sanders under siege, the tv challenge is chaos

2020-02-26T16:17:03.873Z

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 front runner and more than ever launched in the nomination race, into difficulty, while Elizabeth Warren, the other progressive candidate, was unable to hitting Sanders for the agenda similar to his has returned to whip Michael Bloomberg, with the former mayor of New York having to once again collect charges of sexism and discrimination in the workplace. 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 there was also a remote duel on the coronavirus affair, after the federal health authorities have warned against an almost certain surge in cases also 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 funds to health, the president did not think twice times and replied live on Twitter: "My administration is doing a great job, including the immediate closure of our borders to certain areas." "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. "Can you imagine - he added - the moderate Republicans who vote for Sanders? And if this doesn't happen, you won't win against Trump". In the same wave Pete Buttigieg: "If the nomination goes to Sanders we will have four more years of Donald Trump, the speaker of the House will be Republican and the Democrats will not be able to win back the Senate. It is not only the presidency that counts." 'Colleague' Warren has come to the rescue of the senator: "The progressive agenda is very popular. We talk about how to build the future. That's what matters." The former Vice-President Joe Biden is also more lively than usual, and he is still leading the polls in South Carolina and is already playing most of his chances to continue the race. The challenge to Sanders is launched: "On Saturday I will win, and I will win the vote of the African Americans," he said, in the hope of regrouping the great alliance that led to Barack Obama's triumph. But in the polls Sanders, which already dominates it at the national level, is in great comeback and is scary.