Some Questions That Should Be Asked at Tonight’s Democratic Presidential Debate

But from which we can bet they’ll be spared

Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate at Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada on Feb. 19, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Commentary

Very often—not always, but usually—news media moderators of presidential debates aggressively go at Republicans but are prone to lob softball questions at Democrats. It’s as if they pitch to strike out Republicans but try to make it easy for Democrats to hit it out of the park.