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There have been five Democratic primary debates and nine candidates have already dropped out. But not long after the conclusion of the fifth Democratic debate, CNN analysts saved some of their loudest praise for a candidate that didn’t even make in onto the debate stage. In fact, the candidate didn’t announce his candidacy until last week. The candidate many of them were gushing over was former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
The first time Patrick’s name popped up was when CNN host and liberal activist Van Jones was trying to understand where a so-called “moderate” like former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would fit into the race. “Where is the room for the moderate to come in? And then Biden blows four tires in the last ten minutes. And you’re like -- If you're Bloomberg you start looking,” he quipped.
To that, CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger threw Patrick’s name into the mix and it piqued Jones’ interest. “Or Deval Patrick. If you’re Deval Patrick, you look at that and you say, ‘how many times can Biden do that and survive,’” he wondered
Host Anderson Cooper brought up Patrick again, a few minutes later, saying they were talking about him during the commercial break. Cooper went again to Jones, who opined about how Patrick could “fix” the country like a progressive and “heal” the country like a moderate.
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