CNN's Van Jones Calls It Right Again: The Debate Stunk, and Trump is Set to Crush His Opponent

By Alex Parker | 8:30 PM on January 15, 2020

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So how’d you like Tuesday night’s debate?

See any Trump-threatening skill?

CNN’s Van Jones didn’t.

He said as much during a group discussion after the circus — I mean, civil arguments between people vying for the nation’s top position.

Van’s got a gift for concision:

“Tonight, for me, was dispiriting.”

Among the crappiness: Bernie and Elizabeth’s “vitriol.”

Here’s a reminder:

She’d already shaken Tom’s hand. And she immediately shook Pete’s.

Here’s more of — as Whoopi Goldberg put it — “Mom and dad…fightin’.”

Seems like she didn’t “try” hard enough when it was over.

It’s hard to watch everyone fight.

Just kidding. It’s incredibly easy: This is the time it happens — people who previously acted like friends now turn on each other.

It’s the only time we get to see — to this degree — the real nature of politics.

Van thought it was pitiful.

And, in his view, there’s nothing on that stage that can pose a threat to Donald “The Animal” Trump:

“Democrats need to do better than what we saw tonight. Nothing I saw tonight would be able to take Donald Trump out — and I want to see a Democrat in the White House.”

BET founder Bob Johnson thinks the same, although for perhaps a different reason.

In November, he made that clear to CNBC:

“I think what the Democrats have to do is to be careful not to get caught up in stylistic Trump, and more substantive Trump. … I do not see anybody in the Democratic primary races today that is enough in the center — where I believe most of the voters are…”

Also where they are: sitting on the couch watching Van Jones say this: