Official 2020 US Election: Democratic Party Discussion

[HylianSwordsman]

I understand Warren was already the leader of those on stage, but I think she really crushed it. Castro kicked ass as well, though mostly on the stuff he was familiar with, so I give the crown to Warren. Gabbard did okay, reminded me of why I used to like her, I think she'll get a bit more recognized and definitely connected with her foreign policy audience so she probably gains from this. Bill de Blasio shocked me by going full Medicare For All with Warren. He made good use of his interruptions, while Delaney did not. Bill de Blasio probably helped himself with certain people with the content of his interruptions, but pissed off others just by interrupting so much, while Delaney had nothing to say when he butted in, and just annoyed everybody. Beto was beaten to a bloody pulp. Poor bastard. Tim Ryan I recognize people liked for some reason, but he really just didn't do anything for me. I have a slightly better opinion of him now than before, but he looked really bad in that exchange with Gabbard. Not that I don't feel that Al-Queda needed to be dealt with, or that the Taliban are bad dudes for aiding them, but just that he got them mixed up like that looked really bad. Amy Klobuchar didn't humiliate herself or anything, but damn was she boring, and seemed to say a lot without really saying anything. Really cemented her place in my mind as one of the most "meh" of the major contenders. Cory Booker too, but to a lesser extent, however for the guy who got the most talking time to underwhelm me so much, what a waste of an opportunity. Jay Inslee was there and said some nice things I agree with I guess, but underwhelmed on climate change, he was supposed to be the big climate change guy and really bring that subject into the debate and he says Trump is the greatest geopolitical threat? Come on man, the answer is obvious to anyone that really understands climate change that it's climate change, how could the climate change guy say anything else? So disappointed there, but otherwise he did okay. If he had really knocked it out of the park for me on climate change he'd have ended up higher in my rankings.

Biggest Losers:
1. Beto O'Rourke
2. John Delaney
3. Tim Ryan
4. Amy Klobuchar
5. Cory Booker

Biggest Winners
1. Warren
2. Castro
3. Bill de Blasio
4. Tulsi Gabbard
5. Jay Inslee

Really though, only Warren and Castro really gained all that much, and only Beto and Delaney really lost all that much. The rest were between kind of meh to very meh.