It's not the first time anyone has pointed out the blatant tipping-the-scales for Hillary Clinton the DNC is engaged in, to the detriment of other Democratic candidates, but it still needs to be said:
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said in a television interview that the Democratic National Committee deliberately scheduled debates at times when viewership would be low in an effort to “protect” the party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton.
The criticism from Sanders followed the third Democratic debate of the 2016 contest, held here on Saturday night, six days before Christmas and at a time of heightened tensions between the Sanders campaign and the DNC over a data-breach controversy.
Asked whether he thought the timing of Saturday’s debate was intended to hold down viewership, Sanders said: “Yes, I do.”
“I hope a lot of people watched the debate tonight,” the Vermont senator said on WMUR, the local ABC affiliate. “I think it was a good debate, but I think there is a desire on the part of the DNC to protect Secretary Clinton.”
Sanders also pointed to the timing of the previous Democratic debate, held last month on a Saturday night in Des Moines at a time when the Iowa Hawkeyes were playing football against the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
“In Iowa, do you know when the debate was held?” Sanders said. “It was the night of the big football game in Iowa. Do you think that’s a coincidence?”...
“I think everybody understands that Hillary Clinton, who I have a lot of respect for, is the establishment candidate,” Sanders said. “Virtually the entire establishment is supporting her, including the leadership of the DNC.”
I think all three candidates did well, despite the unrelenting awfulness of the moderators and the war-mongering egging-on they put into everything that was said, not to mention the clear favoring of Hillary Clinton, by giving her the most time and the chance to answer questions while shushing the other candidates, even when they'd just been attacked or their positions presented in a distorted fashion.
If few people saw the debate, I think that's just as well, considering what it was. The relevant portions will still continue to circulate on social media, right through the primaries, minus the thumb-on-the-scale provided by both the DNC and ABC News.