This Was the Absolute Stupidest Moment of Tonight's Debate

By Rafi Schwartz | June 27, 2019 | 3:02am

Elections

NBC News mainstay and bona-fide brain cell destroyer Chuck Todd is extremely good at one thing: Asking bad questions, and being very chill with getting bad answers in return. And, lo and behold, his streak continued uninterrupted during Wednesday night’s Democratic primary debate, when he asked the ten candidates on stage to rattle off America’s biggest geopolitical threat in one word. Yes, one single word to describe literally the entire world.

The question, worthless as it was, prompted a range of responses from the debaters: From nuclear war, to climate change, to Russia, and in the case of Washington Governor Jay Inslee—Donald Trump himself.