Asked Friday in Houston how he can prove his abilities to rivals — and voters — Biden replied, “I carry the ball over the finish line.” But he also said that questions about the impact of his age were fair game.
Other candidates were squeamish about the direction of the discussion, with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) calling Castro’s criticism “so personal and so unnecessary” and former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) saying, “That kind of personal attack, I don’t think, is what we need right now and is insufficient to the challenges we face.”
“I thought Castro’s attacks were ludicrous,” McAuliffe said. “It’s not helpful to the party to have Democrats chewing on each other this way. The thing I worry about is when people watched that and saw it they probably turned it off and said, ‘I’m sick of this.’ We need a positive message.”
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