Democratic Debate Reaction

Warren had a great night, could hardly been better if you scripted it and by “luck of the draw” (if you believe in such things and not my Completely True QAnon Conspiracy Theories) got a chance to be all Presidential and Front-Runnerish which can only help. She’s got MoMo (as in Momentum Movement) working and this can only reinforce it. It’s a great wakeup call for Left Democrats who are looking for Bernie without Bernie’s Baggage.

Beto took a beating but was at least noticeable, Castro crushed him in the Great Texas Pissing Contest and looks a lot better than he has though Julián’s still doomed (so is Beto). One of them should be running against Cornyn. de Blasio did much better than I expected but the bar was low and there’s no reason anyone should love him any more than New York City does (according to my biased polls the general reaction is- “Thank goodness for a real, Bloomberg doesn’t count, Democrat. Too bad he’s an idiot.”).

Booker had great comic reaction shots in the background but otherwise did little to improve his position which mostly seems to be “Hey! I’m just as articulate as Obama.” which even if true, and it might be, does not recommend his candidacy to me. Where’s Cory on Single Payer? No where, that’s where, even de Blasio had no hesitancy.

Klobuchar was mostly notable for running over time. John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, and Tim Ryan did nothing that should change their hard to measure polling, Jay Inslee had a good one liner but not about his signature Global Warming Policy.

Of course they rated live recaps on Trevor and Stephen and Seth, but Sam Bee also got her shot-

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