6 things to watch during a Iowa Democratic debate

You still need a scorecard to follow all a Republican presidential candidates, even after their fourth discuss this weekrelegated to a undercard

That said, a second Democratic discuss in Des Moines on Saturday

Here are 6 things to watch during a debate, that is sponsored by The Des Moines Register

1. Who sets a tone?

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and former Martin O’Malley speak backstage before a start of a Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Oct. 24, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Bernie Sanders has been some-more assertive on a branch toward Hillary Clinton lately, but she has continued to be largely deferential toward him, focusing many of her glow on Republicans. That’s given Sanders needs Clinton to stutter if he’s to benefit ground, while Clinton wants to equivocate any scars that competence forestall a Vermont senator and his supporters from subsidy her as a hopeful with enthusiasm. Does moderator John Dickerson

2. Is Bernie Sanders still ill and sleepy of conference about Hillary Clinton’s damn emails?

Bernie Sanders takes partial in a initial Democratic discuss in Las Vegas on Oct. 13, 2015.
(Joe Raedle, Getty Images)

His stipulation to that outcome during a initial discuss brought a relieved giggle and a handshake from Clinton. But given then, a Vermont senator has pronounced in interviews that sovereign agencies are pursuing “valid questions” about her disdainful use of a private email server when she was secretary of State, including either personal information was compromised. “I did not contend ‘end a investigation,’” he told The Wall Street Journal

3. Who are we job a Democrat?

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow acknowledge a throng after a Democratic forum during Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., on Nov. 6, 2015. (Chuck Burton, AP)

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4. Is it hawk vs. dove?

Hillary Clinton is introduced during a Jefferson-Jackson cooking on Oct. 24, 2015, in Des Moines. (Scott Olson, Getty Images)

Both Clinton and Sanders speak some-more about mercantile than unfamiliar policy, though the differences between them are wider on inhabitant security. That’s generally a case since Clinton has changed left to oppose construction of the Keystone pipelineTrans-Pacific Partnership trade deal

5.Which Republican contender does Clinton target?

Marco, Rubio, Donald Trump and Ben Carson take partial in a Milwaukee GOP discuss on Nov. 10, 2015. (Scott Olson, Getty Images)

That will tell you whom her group believes is going to win a disorderly GOP contest. There was a time when she was directing her ridicule mostly during former Florida administrator Jeb Bush, though that was when he was approaching to lead a field. While Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to tip a polls, a required knowledge now views Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as a many expected finalists for a nomination. Do her barbs prove that she agrees?

6.Who’s this Martin O’Malley, again?

Martin O’Malley rallies supporters outward a Iowa Events Center before a start of a Jefferson-Jackson cooking on Oct. 24, 2015, in Des Moines. (Scott Olson, Getty Images)

The former two-term administrator of Maryland has had small success in violation through, during slightest so far. The discuss gives him one more chance to make an impression. He’s struggled to register in inhabitant polls, nonetheless a CBS News/New York Times put him during a new high: 5%. The discuss “may be Gov. O’Malley’s Waterloo moment,” says Aaron Kall, executive of discuss during a University of Michigan.

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