Maryland Democrats, Republicans cheer and jeer at their debate watch parties

In a family-owned Salvadorian restaurant in Wheaton earlier this summer, the Democratic faithful in Montgomery County watched mostly in silence and lingered at the bar afterward as President Joe Biden stumbled through a debate that would seal his fate as the leader of his party. Just over two months later in the same local haunt, the mood had shifted into celebration, the margaritas and Coronas flowing during a rematch that was anything but quiet for a new Democratic nominee at the top of the ticket.