Absolutely. Fareed is exactly right. That was a watershed event in his campaign for the presidency because it's really when he began to draw a very sharp distinctions between himself and not just Hillary Clinton but the rest of the democratic field and frankly most of the Washington political establishment.
David Axelrod reflects on a pivotal moment in Obama's campaign where he differentiated himself from other candidates, including Hillary Clinton.
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I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.
I think the darker interpretation of what we saw today is that they were setting up a pretext, he and the vice president for walking away from Ukraine and blaming Zelenskyy for it.
I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
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