2nd DEM Debate Thread: July 30 & 31, Detroit (MI), CNN

[riceowl]

Everyone else: here's my website
Joe Biden: Dust off your rotary phones, and

[NOVA Green]

Uncle Joe: We are all Americans....

[Grassroots]

LOL all most democrats ever do is pit people against each other racially. Pleaseeee

Your party just screams racism to win as many white people as possible.

Your party screams racism to win as many minorities as possible.

Racism is "screamed" when it really occurs. Get over it snowflake.

Manufactured racism isn’t racism. There is no racism.

trump is manufacturing racism in the US. That's all you need to know.

There is no racism to be manufactured. Dems are making this stuff up, admit it already.

Congratulations.  That's the most absurd statement of the night.

Reverse card.

[Donald Trump’s Toupée]

Why is every single election the ‘most consequential election of our lifetimes?’ Mate, life never lives up to such hype.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

Yang knocked it out of the park with that closing statement and focus on the problem of automation.

[SN2903]

Tulsi and Yang clearly won.

[Skunk]

Well with that over, here's my preference rankings.

[John Dule]

Tulsi just went off the deep end. Jesus.

Reining in the bloated military is going off the deep end?

Nope but her presentation made her look genuinely insane.

You just want to diminish her strong performance. Chill out. She didn't sound insane.

It was pretty blatant fearmongering. She could've worded it better.

[Storr]

Joe had a good closing statement (except for the text/phone awkwardness).

[Grassroots]

Why is every single election the ‘most consequential election of our lifetimes?’ Mate, life never lives up to such hype.

2016 was the greatest election since 2000, I doubt 2020 can top that.

[Gracile]

I don't think these debates will meaningfully change anything in regard to polling.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

I'm gonna go ahead, save the humility, and throw out this old Kirsten 2020 hat. It's not gonna last much longer after tonight.

What a disappointment.

[Senator Incitatus]

Biden did well enough to remain the front-runner through the next debate, barring scandal.

Harris will stagnate, probably not sink.

I don't care about the rest of the candidates.

[GeorgiaModerate]

My take: exactly two people in that group (Biden and Harris) started the night with a reasonable chance of being the nominee.  Nothing in the debate changed this.

[PSOL]

All these debates did was improve my opinions of Williamson over Yang. Everything else stood static, expectable, and in some cases worse than what I thought was possible.

[John Dule]

I'm gonna go ahead, save the humility, and throw out this old Kirsten 2020 hat. It's not gonna last much longer after tonight.

What a disappointment.

Top stuff. Good of you to own up to it, which is more than I can say for the former Beto backers on this site.

[Heebie Jeebie]

I'm gonna go ahead, save the humility, and throw out this old Kirsten 2020 hat. It's not gonna last much longer after tonight.

What a disappointment.

Can I have It?  I thought she did well.

[Gracile]

Why is every single election the ‘most consequential election of our lifetimes?’ Mate, life never lives up to such hype.

It's all political theater with the intent of tapping into the emotions of potential voters.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

My take: exactly two people in that group (Biden and Harris) started the night with a reasonable chance of being the nominee.  Nothing in the debate changed this.

[Senator Incitatus]

The biggest winner tonight was Contested Convention.

[CookieDamage]

Anyways I can see Biden winning this debate narrowly because he was mediocre and did marginally better than last time, and of course since he's the frontrunner and a white guy he gets praised for the bare minimum.

But then again, I can see Gillibrand, Booker, or Castro besting him.

[JGibson]

My Verdict:
Winners: Castro, Booker, Gillibrand, Inslee, Yang
Losers: Biden, de Blasio
Most Improved: Gillibrand, Yang, Inslee, Gabbard
Most Regressed: Harris

[History505]

My take: exactly two people in that group (Biden and Harris) started the night with a reasonable chance of being the nominee.  Nothing in the debate changed this.

This. This. This.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

I'm gonna go ahead, save the humility, and throw out this old Kirsten 2020 hat. It's not gonna last much longer after tonight.

What a disappointment.

Top stuff. Good of you to own up to it, which is more than I can say for the former Beto backers on this site.

Yeah, now that I got the platform - hey Beto supporters - drop out too. Just like Kirsten supporters - there are other candidates more deserving of our $ and support.

[Roronoa D. Law]

CNN is trying everything to bring Warren onto this debate stage tonight.