Debbie Wasserman Schultz Confronted Over DNC Emails in Debate with Dem Opponent

Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz finally debated her Democratic opponent Tim Canova yesterday. On a Sunday. At 8 AM. (So if you were thinking her days of wanting debates on at inconvenient times were over…)

Moderator Jim DeFede started things off by asking about the more troubling emails––including the ones about Bernie Sanders‘ faith––and asked, “What does it say about your leadership at the DNC that your senior staff felt comfortable enough to talk about a person’s religion in that way?”

She insisted she’s wholly condemned the relevant emails and said “the DNC suffered a 21st century Watergate.”

DeFede also brought up how one email appeared to show coordination between Wasserman Schultz’ reelection campaign and the DNC to monitor Canova’s campaign.

Canova filed an FEC complaint last week about it, and during yesterday’s debate he said he was troubled by that and by another email Wasserman Schultz sent to Chuck Todd complaining about negative coverage.

Wasserman Schultz insisted nothing her campaign did was illegal and that the outcome of an election can’t be decided on “the content of private emails.”

(For the record, Mediaite’s past post about Wasserman Schultz’s refusal to debate her opponent was cited in the DNC emails as supposed evidence we are “right-wing.”)

Watch the first part of the debate above, via CBS Miami.

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