wbrocks67
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« on: August 01, 2019, 05:30:34 AM » |
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Harris was definitely off from the first night, but she wasn't *bad* - I think her descriptions of her health care plan were actually more concrete and forceful than they've ever been. The discussion really got muddied with her and Biden going back and forth. When she spoke about immigration or climate change, I thought she shined - and in her closing statement. She DOES have to more forcefully defend her AG record, however, there's only so much time for that when Gabbard is listing off like 5 falsehoods about her record. She'll have to come up with a quick answer when someone brings something like that up. I did like the part about how when you are in an actual *job* and not just on stage you have to make real choices. I think Harris may have focused a lot on making sure she could defend her healthcare record and maybe didn't prepare as much for the chance of Gabbard coming after her on her record.
Gabbard really just needs to go away; she doesn't deserve to be on that stage and it's mesmerizing to me that anyone would be feeling good about her after last night. Every time she spoke it sounded stiff and scripted. The best was when Harris totally ignored and said 'well Gabbard is WRONG' and then just moved back on to Biden.
Biden was better initially, but then he fell back into feeling like he was too old and confused a lot. Then when he was trying to remember opposition research, it felt like he had written it down somewhere and was trying to remember what to say.
Booker was good, but I just don't see it happening for him.
Gillibrand, Inslee, De Blasio, were all forgettable. Castro gets some good one-liners in but once again I don't see it happening long term for him either. I really don't get anyone who thinks Yang was good either. All he does is just connect everything back to robots and technology, instead of actually talking about his vision for the country.
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