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Darlings keep playing nice? meanwhile, pete buttigieg and kamala harris are eager to reclaim past glorious. both peaked earlier in the summer based on town halls, and both have seen a steady decline in their numbers since then. there's also the question of everybody else. andrew yang, beto o'rourke, cory booker, amy klobuchar, julian castro all polling in the single digits despite strong showings in past debates. none of their political sparks so far, though, have caught fire. today's big question is will tonight change the narrative that this race has become just a three-way race? joining...

So it's hard when you're campaigning on your record and joe biden is certainly someone who's doing that, he's going to have to be able to explain those positions. someone like elizabeth warren certainly will have to do the same. so when you're putting in the front-runner seat, that's the job of being a front-runner. whether or not she can rise to the occasion, we'll see in the next few weeks. >> mike, those of us in the cheap seats, the people behind the cameras might say biden hasn't performed that well during debates, but the polling doesn't bear that out. what's his team looking at, the pol...

That quickly that early were these kinds of direct attacks like we saw from kamala harris on his bussing position in the past, attacks they view as unfair. you saw in the second debate that he wanted to come out more feisty, being able to show not only could he take and deliver a punch, yes, they know that these debates, biden himself said this often, these aren't substantive debates. these are brief assertions, but when your argument is about electability and polls show he is more electable against donald trump. every voter watching these debates is asking, can i see this person on stage with...

If you can bring that to the debate stage, his performances were lackluster the first two debates. it's not his best for something but the issue sets up nicely for him here tonight. as for julian castro, he's proven to be a able debater and not afraid to go after other folks on the stage, whether it was o'rourke in the first debate or biden in the second. he comes in needing a little bit of attention. he's been feast or famine on the trail where he has moments in the debate and toning fade into the background. i think castro is someone who they might be looking over their shoulder at. he's sho...