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The dumbest moment of last night’s debate was Chuck Todd demanding a "one-word answer" on our greatest geopolitical threat, hassling candidates who tried to expound, praising it as "the best part of a debate like this," then moving on with no followups. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/06/2…
Todd could have done an immense service by digging in deeper to these different answers, getting the candidates to explain why they picked the threats that they did. But... he just decided not to?
Notably four candidates said they viewed China as the nation's greatest geopolitical threat, a subject that received literally no attention from the moderators the remainder of the night. Maybe take the hint?
