It’s Getting Harder to Break Through

Dan Balz: “Trump isn’t the only problem the Democrats face in gaining a hearing from voters. The sheer size of the field inevitably has drawn more attention to the best-known candidates.”

“An adviser to one of the candidates looking for a breakthrough emailed this assessment: ‘The questions in the debate are disproportionately directed towards those who are already ahead in polls. Then the post-debate coverage is framed about what happened to and between those candidates. So it’s largely a self-fulfilling prophecy.’”