I doubt that the debates are going to be "attack the competitor" thing.

[MineralMan]

Instead, each of the candidates is going to have to try, in short bursts, to say something that will set him or her apart from the other 23 candidates. There won't be time for attacking the leader if you want to move up in the polls.

With a couple of exceptions, all of our Democratic candidates are good, honest Democrats who want to lead the country in a progressive direction. Where they disagree, it's on the fine points of how to do that.

So, expect each of them, with possibly one or two exceptions, to try to make their own case in the short time they have to address the debate questions. Any of them who tries to diss another Democrat is going to fail miserably in the polls that follow these debates.

So, if you're looking for fireworks, you're probably not going to enjoy these debates. If, however, you want to learn more about each of the candidates, keep your attention on their answers to each debate question.

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Depends on the questions & format for responses and candidates interaction.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Look for Biden to go after Trump.......

If asked why he did that when he announced.

[MineralMan]

3. No problem with that. I expect several to attack Trump.

That's just fine.

[4139]

4. I expect "We can't win the OLD way..." to be smattered throughout both debates

... I don’t expect direct attacks but the word ‘OLD’ will be used a lot

[marylandblue]

15. Really? Now the word "old" is a slur? I'll let my 11-year OLD kid know.

She's been growing out of her OLD clothes even though I just bought them six months ago. Good thing I have an OLD friend in the clothing business. We grew up together in OLD Town, Maine and he is just a year OLDer than I am.

OLDness. It's not just for septuaginarians anymore, like it was in the OLD days. Seems like that was just last week.

[beachbum bob]

5. I don't think the moderators will allow this to happen, they NEED attacks to happen

[ooky]

7. Agree moderators will try to do this. Hopefully our candidates won't take the bait though.

They don't need to say things to one another that our opponents can use against our eventual general election candidate. I really hope they keep their comments to what they will do to fix the mess that Trump and Republicans have created.

[beachbum bob]

8. ther lower tiered ones have nothing to lose if they attack and this is what I expect to see

remember that made a nobody trump into the president

[ooky]

9. I agree with the OP on this point.

If they do that its going to hurt them rather then help them.

[Hekate]

11. Trump was hardly "a nobody." He had all those years on a popular tv program...

...beaming his self-advertising into the brains of susceptible people. From that vantage point he nastily picked off his rivals one by one.

[JI7]

16. trump was not a nobody.

[beachbum bob]

17. he was a political nobody that no other GOP candidate had any idea how to go after

[Doreen]

6. Attacking each other would be stupid.

At this time they need to make sure their followers are willing to switch over to the winner. Making their Democrat competitors look bad would be a big mistake. Also they NEED to IMMEDIATELY endorse the winner.

None of this having a tantrum that they did not win crap again.

[MineralMan]

10. Well, some here are hoping for attacks on the other candidates.

[Doreen]

12. That is to bad that ones here would

want that. It is totaly unproductive for this country.

[MineralMan]

13. We have many very good candidates in the running.

Only one will be the nominee. I see no reason to attack any of them, although I recognize some who don't have any chance of becoming the nominee. All of them are progressive, to one degree or another. One of them will be on the ballot next November, and that one will get my support and vote, whatever his or her name is.

[Doreen]

14. Yeah, there are the ones I would mostly

like to see to be the nominee but I will not even have a split second thought to vote for the one who makes it.