This is how the debate is playing out in the papers starting with the Washington Post. Democrats hang up on Bernie Sanders in South Carolina debate. Ruckus york times, democratic debate yields no clear challenger to sanders. The wall street journal frames it this way, rivals focus on sanders at South Carolinas debate and the Washington Times this morning, not so friendly fire at sanders. What are your thoughts on it this morning . We will show you one of those moments where the Democratic Candidates go after senator sanders and his electability. The only way you can do this is to actually win the presidency. I am not looking forward 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. This is not about the 1970s or the 1980s. This is about the future. This is about 2020. We are not going to survive or succeed and we are not going to win by reliving the cold war. We are not going to win these critical races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look astroe bright side of the c regime. Senator sanders, your response. Let it be clear that we think health care for all is some kind of radical communist idea. We think raising taxes on billionaires is a radical idea. One at a time. That is why i am beating trump in virtually every poll. One of the moments from last nights debate. Buttigieg going after senator sanders. Senator sanders got the most speaking time last night with over 15 minutes although by mayor Michael Bloomberg with 13. 5 minutes. Klobuchar with about the same. Elizabeth warren just under 15 minutes. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 11. 5 minutes. Tom steyer with seven minutes of speaking time in the debate. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders also talked about the economy which is President Trumps central message in his reelection campaign. Here is what senator sanders had to say. Great economy is doing for people like mr. Bloomberg and other billionaires. In the last three years billionaires in this country saw 850 billion increase. Last year, wage increases for the average worker were less than 1 . Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. 87 million americans have no Health Insurance or are underinsured. Millions of people are struggling with student debt. 500,000 people are sleeping on the street including 30,000 veterans. That is not an economy that is working for the American People. That is an economy working for the 1 . We will create an economy for all, not just wealthy Campaign Senators bloomberg, i will let you respond to that. I think that donald trump thinks it would be better if he is president. I do not think so. Vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president and that is why russia is helping you get elected so you will lose to him. I am me tell mr. Putin not a good friend of president xi of china. Putin whol mr. Interfered in the 26 elections trying to bring americans against americans. Our president of the united youes if i am president , will not interfere in any more elections. Host the Democratic Candidates in South Carolina. Newspaper from that state with the headline, first in the south. Candidates struggled to score points. We will have coverage of that South Carolina primary contest on saturday with results and speeches. You can watch that saturday evening. You can go to our website for more information. This saturday on the washington journal, we will have guests from the college of charleston including representatives from the top campaigns so you will be able to talk to them here on the washington journal on saturday. Right now, your reaction to the debate last night. Emily in san francisco, republican. Caller it is good to hear you. You see everybody in china host we are talking about the debate. Matthew in williamson, georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. Inhink pete did really well resenting the moderate wing of the Democratic Party which is the majority wing. Very respectful. He was not loud and screaming. You have enough of that in this country. If i wanted that, i would have voted for trump. I think he did really well. In middletown, new york. Caller i see that they are all very respectful and i appreciate that. I have the feeling that none of them could be president. They might be good governors and senators, but i do not see anybody on that stage that could be president. Host why do you say that . Caller consider this. As much as china, who do you want to send over to stop it . It, we are foolish. Thank you very much. Media, michael on Facebook Says none of the candidates can win flyover countries. Anther, how about amyelizabeth take it . Usther from florida texted to say, biden had a good night. Any one of them would be better than trump who is incompetent. The coronavirus is serious and trump treats it like it is no big deal. The only concern is the stock market. That is beyond disgusting. Here is a moment from last nights debate when Elizabeth Warren attacked Michael Bloomberg, the new york city mayor for the nondisclosure agreements. Take a look. We will show you that in a minute. First, we will talk to teresa, democratic caller. Caller good morning. I was interested in the debate last night and wondering why the prolife issue was not presented for discussion. That would be my question. Why is that important to you . Caller it is very much the battle in washington and it is very much the talking point of the Democratic Party and yet none of the candidates weighed in on that. If we are going to discuss health care for all and all of the different humanitarian concepts that we were discussed, the beginning of life concept was not discussed. I thought that was an very interesting it struck me. Host ok. Raleigh, north carolina. Caller it is amazing to me how all democrats talk about the black vote. Very important. I hope the black people in america were listening last night. Help the black people more and forget illegal immigration . Host what did you not hear that you wanted to hear from these candidates . Caller they were talking about education, health care. Everything that we did for america, they give them birth right, they give them everything. Why is the black vote so important but they will not focus on black issues . Every year, the same thing happens. They get up there, but once they get in, you dont hear anything about it. Host how are you going to vote . Caller im voting for donald trump appeared donald trump is doing what he said he will do. Trump is doing a good job, if you ask me. Thank you very much. That ihat moment referenced earlier between Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg where she is asked why she thinks he is the riskiest candidate. We are here in charleston. Do you know whos going to be entrusted later this week . Donald trump will be here to raise money for lindsey graham. Who funded Lindsey Grahams campaign for reelection last time . It was mayor bloomberg. That is not the only right wing senator that mayor bloomberg has funded. 12 millionumped into the Pennsylvania Senate race to reelect an antichoice right wing republican senator. I just want to say, the woman challenger was terrific and she lost by a single point. In 2012 he tried to defend another republican senator against a challenger. That was me. It did not work, but he tried hard. [cheering] i dont care how much money mayor bloomberg has. The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him. He has not earned their trust. I will. The fact that he cannot earn the trust of the core of the is thetic party means he riskiest candidate standing on this stage. Senator warren, thank you. Mayor bloomberg, would you like to respond . I have been training for this job since i stepped in the pile of that was smoldering on 9 11. I know what to do. I know how to run a country. I have run a city which is almost the same size as most countries in the world. I am the one choice that makes sense. I have the experience and the resources and the record. That theose sideshows senator wants to bring up have nothing to do with that. When people hired me to run new ank city three times in overwhelmingly progressive city, they elected b again and again. Me again anded again. Host if you wanted a ticket to sit in the audience last night, according to the dnc spokesperson, she writes this on twitter. The tickets were divided up between the dnc, he campaigns with equal allocation, South CarolinaDemocratic Party, cbs and twitter. We invited leaders and supporters. This is the most of the audience, she said. According to the New York Times this morning, they report that the price of the ticket, the Charleston CountyDemocratic Party offered sponsorship 1750 whiching from included admission and access to other events. For the first democratic debate in miami in june, the florida Democratic Party offered sponsorship for thousands of dollars according to the miami herald. For 4500, a sponsor gets two tickets. 1750 tickets which covered the debate for one person. And her pathway to the nomination, the wall street journal has a headline this morning on that. It is a challenge, they say. Argued thatm has she is better poised. The backtoback New Hampshire and nevada result in which she earned no delegates call that strategy into question. Instead, she is falling behind. Bernie sanders of vermont with whom she aligns on policy appears to be consolidating support. Oklahoma, a republican, what did you think . I was planning on watching all three hours of the debate last night. I ended up watching gordon ramsay. I think the debate license should be revoked and they should come up with another way of acknowledging the candidates other than raising their hands because that was not working. They were all talking over each other. I think the crowd should be instructed to stay silent after the debate and clap afterwards like they do during conventions. It was godawful as far as im concerned. I was looking forward to it because i always like to see democrats carry them selves apart. Last night was awful. I could not make heads or tails of it. This is the first time i have seen i wish i would have the last debate because that was a lot better, i think. Debate was relatively good where you could actually put out some ideas. Last night was useless. I did not hear one new idea spoken among any of them because you could not hear what they were saying. The what about turning off microphones when somebodys time is up . Caller they have to have control. The major seemed like an afterthought. He barely got to ask any questions at all. Sue echoes what paul had to say. It was chaos. Lacked theors ability to control the situation and it quickly went off the rails. Kim in alabama. Caller thank you for taking my call. Senator sanders, if he is elected to be the democratic person to run for president , he is a socialist. Donald trump and the Republican Party will win against a socialist. StandsDemocratic Party behind senator sanders, they will be branded. The Democratic Party will be branded as a socialist party. If they are branded as a socialist party, they will lose the house, they will lose the senate, they will lose the presidency by being branded as a socialist party. I like Bernie Sanders, but that is not the way to go. The other thing i would like to save is about joe biden. The other thing i would like to say is about joe biden. He has locked up more inicanAmerican People than slavery in the 1800s. Black people are voting for him, which i cannot understand. Those people who were locked up, they have lost their right to vote. That is mass incarceration equals mass voter suppression. Thing on Roosevelt WarrenElizabeth Warren. The Womens Movement is strong. The Metoo Movement is strong. Without the women being nominated to the house, the democrats could not have won the house. The democrats can take the woman, but you need a not sanders and not biden, you need a woman. A woman can be donald trump. Hillary clinton beat donald trump in the popular vote. Women won the senate for the democrats. You can take a woman, elizabeth she can be trumped. Thank you for your time. Onehank you for your writes, we need a respectful leader that we can be proud of. Independent, hi, julia. So disappointed last night in the debate. It was an argument against each other. I know they do that when they go , i am sohey canvas disappointed in the Democratic Party. I dont think any of them are going to win and we are all going to lose because i think trump is going to win again. I just wanted to let you know that i am so disappointed, i could not watch the whole thing. Host we have more debates. The Washington Post notes the 11th debate scheduled for march days beforex a few primaries in arizona, florida, illinois, and ohio. It is scheduled to air on 1 00 p. M. On cnn. Heading into that debate, march will7 of the delegates have been pledged. You seventhinning saw seven candidates last night. Primarya soft turn on a this saturday with 54 delegates up for grabs. Super tuesday on march 3. On march 10, idaho, michigan, mississippi, missouri, north dakota, and Washington State with 416 delegates. Rick in idaho. Calling on behalf of President Trump. The democrats have succeeded nothing. They have failed at everything. The costofliving adjustments in 1975 and 2018. In 2009my message, barack obama increased foreign aid. That posted a 0 of its citizens. Work on 2017 code foreign aid to posting a positive. Increasedarack obama foreign aid above our gdp. In 2015, barack obama increased and costly program billion. Taxpayer 32 what did President Trump do . He reduced the program costing the american taxpayers only 8 billion. My message is simple. Democrats, if you could not get it right in years, why do you think you will get it right in four . Host ok. Roseann in san diego, democratic caller. What did you think of the debate last night . Caller i agree with other people that it was hard to listen to. Ishink the reason for that totally due to Bernie Sanderss presence within the party. I think any of the candidates would be better for this country and the planet than trump who is destroying everything. To winsanders is helping again. I think the moderators did a terrible job. It was the worst debate. They did not learn anything from any of the previous ones. I think the reason abortion was not brought up because the moderators did not bring it up. They did not ask a question about it and they did not give anybody time to answer any of the questions. They were scattered, there were too many topics and nobody got a chance to say anything. Some people got more time than others. It was terrible. All it does is help trump win and destroy us anymore even more than he already has. Host who is your candidate . Caller at this point, it is either going to be stier steyer. Or buttigieg because he is the only person who actually tells the truth about Bernie Sanders. I have not decided yet. Host you said Bernie Sanders is not a democrat. What is he . Caller he is an independent. He is a democraticsocialist. There is committee there is really no such thing. He goes back to the Democratic Party more than he does the republicans or trump. His goal is to change or at least destroy the democrats. I do not know where he is coming from. His mind is stuck in the 60s. American is not the same country it was in the 60s. He became a democrat because he wants their money and their support when he runs for president. Roseann echoing what Pete Buttigieg was arguing last night on the debate stage about Bernie Sanders and Vice President joe biden had this exchange with Bernie Sanders over the senators comments about fidel castro which are following him from his 60 minutes interview on sunday. Take a look. I have opposed authoritarianism all over the world. I was amazed at what mayor bloomberg said. He says that the chinese ernment is responsible responsive. You have a dictatorship there. What i said is what barack obama said in terms of chela cuba. That cuba made progress on education. Really . What barack obama said is they made great progress on education and health care. That was a barack obama. Occasionally it might be a good idea to be honest about americas foreignpolicy and that includes the fact that america has overthrown ,overnments all over the world in what omalley guatemala, in iran. When the chinese or the cubans do something good, you acknowledge that. Barack obama was brought in a town meeting. He did not suggest that there was anything positive about the cuban governme