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Winners and losers of the third Democratic presidential debate

2019-09-13T04:40:29.478Z


The top 10 Democratic presidential candidates participated in a debate for the first time in the race to the 2020 elections. These were the winners and losers ...


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(CNN) - The top 10 Democratic presidential candidates participated at the same time in a debate for the first time in the race for the 2020 elections, exchanging blows and making strong contrasts on issues such as medical care and criminal justice reform.

I chose the best and the worst of the night. These are.

Winners

Joe biden

The first 30 minutes of this debate, usually the period with the highest audience, were Biden's best moments in his entire campaign to date. He did not stumble as he had in previous debates and was able to show his side of justified anger when Bernie Sanders seemed to suggest that the former vice president was responsible for people who contracted cancer (it should be noted: as the debate progressed, Biden stumbled more). Biden was also lucky; Julián Castro's shameless attempt to make Biden's age a problem - he kept asking the former vice president if he was "forgetting" what had been said a few minutes earlier. Low blow. And something ugly. And it is likely that he will become a boomerang against Castro (more on that below). Biden's full recognition of Obama - all eight years, "good and bad" - was also smart, as Obama remains a very popular figure in the Democratic Party, especially among black voters. Overall, Biden looked strong and presidential, though not perfect, especially in his long and confusing (and trumpian) response on the way forward in Iraq and Afghanistan. Overall, however, a good night for the vice president.

Beto O'Rourke

Supporters of the former Texas congressman have been waiting for months for the O'Rourke that appeared Thursday night. "Hell, yes, we'll take your AR-15," O'Rourke promised when the issue focused on gun control and the recent mass shootings in Texas. And the audience went crazy. Yes, O'Rourke was helped by his opponents, including Biden and Elizabeth Warren, who took time to praise him for his gun control statements. And yes, that speaks of the fact that they don't believe he represents a threat to their options for being nominated. Still, for a candidate who has been losing altitude for months, O'Rourke had a night to remember.

Barack Obama

After receiving a surprising amount of blows from some of the candidates in the July debate, the former president had a great comeback on Thursday. Not only did Biden fully embrace Obama's eight years as president, but the ex-president was praised by virtually every candidate on stage. What makes sense, politically. After all, Obama is the country's most popular Democratic politician, by far.

Initial Message from Kamala Harris

I thought that many of the phrases prepared by the California senator - and she had MANY of those - were lazy. (Case in point: "Instead of saying 'no, we can't', say 'yes, we can'". Ummm). BUT that Harris dedicated all his initial message to speak directly to Trump was smart. And his final sentence: "And now, President Trump, you can see Fox News again" received a big applause in the room and will probably be repeated dozens of times in the next 24 hours.

Losers

Julian Castro

The former mayor of San Antonio had a clear plan for this debate: go after Biden and sell himself as the true heir to Obama's legacy. Unfortunately for Castro, it was too hard with Biden on the issue of age with his phrase "are you forgetting?", Which he repeated four times. The attack ended up making Biden seem worthy of empathy, and the response of the former vice president, measured and under control, made Castro look small.

Andrew Yang

Look, today I had just written about how Yang has appeared out of nowhere to be surprisingly relevant in this race. But he was very bad tonight. His promise to give a Dividend of Freedom ($ 1,000 per month) to 10 families across the country at the beginning of the debate seemed more contrived than a provocative policy. His phrase about meeting many doctors because he is Asian was unbearably bad and promoter of absurd stereotypes for no reason.

Elizabeth Warren

The Massachusetts senator was not bad, she was simply not really involved in the debate, which is strange given that it is widely seen as Biden's main challenge at the moment. During a part of the first hour of the debate, Warren disappeared. Part of that has to do with not receiving questions from moderators. But Warren also needs to find ways to get into the conversations, especially given its central location on stage. When he received questions, Warren was solid, particularly when he talked about teachers and his own personal narrative. But he did not receive enough questions.

The economy

This was a very long debate. And we know that, in one election after another, voters point out that the state of the economy (and how they feel personally about it) has a big impact on their vote. What makes the fact that the economy was not the subject of a single question during all that time is to attract attention. In a bad way.

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Source: cnnespanol

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