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Even before the MSNBC Democratic primary debate was finished on Wednesday, CNN was already live with their post-debate analysis. And during a day marked by hours upon hours of televised impeachment hearings, their analysts and commentators discovered that, in many ways, their obsession with impeaching President Trump was hurting their party’s primary process.
The first analyst to make the connection was former Obama adviser David Axelrod, who thought the debate was less exciting that the hearings themselves:
DAVID AXELROD: I have to say I think I'm having some sort of impeachment affect.
[Laughter]
I'm just like where's Devin Nunes?
[Laughter]
Where’s Jim Jordan? Where’s the excitement? Where’s the energy?
“I had the same feeling watching this. I was like, oh, those guys, they exist,” added host Anderson Cooper, seemingly quipping about realizing how the candidates were still around.
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