1st DEM Debate Thread: June 26 & 27, Miami, MSNBC & NBC & Telemundo (9-11pm)

[KaiserDave]

Yang just announced that he's already reached 128,000 donors. Now I guess he has almost two more months to get the final 2000.

He'll probably get them all by the end of the night.

[Crumpets]

In 2016, the change in Facebook followers over the course of a debate was a pretty good leading indicator of poll movement post-debate, so I grabbed all of the debators' numbers from tonight pre-debate. I'll update after the debate to see if there were any big movers.

Booker   1,183,801
Castro      110,963
De Blasio    63,729
Delaney    357,932
Gabbard    329,189
Inslee         70,323
Klobuchar  252,082
O'Rourke   898,670
Ryan           42,654
Warren   3,222,574

[PSOL]

It’s starting

[Oryxslayer]

Prediction: someone we previously thought of as a nobody will have a breakout moment, but their hype won't end up mattering because Iowa is so far away .

[Grassroots]

Here we go boys.

(I'll be posting some reactions over the course of the night).

[John Dule]

So do you guys do running commentaries on here? I've got my bingo sheet ready.

[Senator Incitatus]

I think Gabbard and Booker will get the biggest bump from tonight (but am not making any "predictions" per se).

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Ugh, Rachel Maddow. They might as well have Alex Jones ask questions too.

[Gracile]

Let me predict some things that will come up:

"...win back working-class voters in the rust belt"
"...bring back civility to the office"
Moderators will bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and one of her favored policies (GND, M4A)
"No, I am not a socialist"
Klobuchar mentions she won every congressional district in MN.
Warren plugs her college plan.

[Thunder98]

Hot take: I think Jeb! will win the debate tonight.

[PSOL]

Yaaas, my queen is going first.

Oh gawd I’m creaming

[Gracile]

Is this the first time someone said "Latinx" in a presidential debate?

[PSOL]

Is this the first time someone said "Latinx" in a presidential debate?

Yes

[GeorgiaModerate]

NYT live chat: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/us/politics/democratic-debate-live-chat.html

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Is this the first time someone said "Latinx" in a presidential debate?

Such a dumb phrase, and she didn't even say it right. Whitest thing ever.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Warren: Good energy. Average content.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Only massively bloated military budgets that turn the middle east into a sh**thole are achievable, duh.

[Senator Incitatus]

O'Rourke and Gabbard will win by being hot.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Klobuchar: Average energy.  Good content.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

O'Rourke: Going bilingual in this debate came across more as pandering.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Beto spoke in 2 languages but did not answer the question in either.

[RI]

Why do they even bother asking questions?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Booker was bound to use the fact that he lives in an apartment in Newark.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

>latinx
>Klobuchar spending 5 minutes talking about college debt
>Beto speaking Spanish
The pandering is off the scale

[Mr. Smith]

And here goes Booker going with his tail between his legs trying to go back on what he said.

Booker was bound to use the fact that he lives in an apartment in Newark.

Indeed.

Warren seems to be nailing it though.