“... this Op-Ed was probably written before the debate took place.”
My thought exactly. And, what are the odds that an unknown student could just pen an essay and have it published in the local mainstream paper the very next morning without some ‘fix’ being in?
That’s how it immediately read to me.
Look at this kid’s experience as posted on LinkedIn, and it’s easy to imagine someone on Axelrod’s team having written it for him:
Research Intern at Energy Forum at the Baker Institute for Public Policy
Intern at Center for American Progress
Intern in Office of Management and Administration at White House
Research Intern at Baker Institute for Public Policy Energy Forum
Intern at Clean Line Energy Partners
Research Intern at James A. Baker III Institute For Public Policy