- 00:55:42 Almost time… #DemDebate
- 01:02:21 And here we go… #DemDebate
- 01:03:56 I’ll just say ditto on all my complaints from last night on the format. It sucks. Too many candidates. Too little time for each. #DemDebate
- 01:08:11 Three questions in, things already seem stronger than last night. #DemDebate
- 01:10:01 The crowd is more outspoken tonight than it was last night. #DemDebate
- 01:10:56 Gillibrand manages to jump in. #DemDebate
- 01:11:59 Bennet comes out of the gate being a goofball. #DemDebate
- 01:13:15 Much more bickering early on than last night. These folks are feisty. #DemDebate
- 01:15:42 Yang starts out being surprised by the question of how he would pay for UBI. Nice. #DemDebate
- 01:17:24 Yang actually did have a decent answer after he got the question. #DemDebate
- 01:18:21 Nice ding on Biden with his own words. #PassTheTorch #DemDebate
- 01:19:53 Kamala laughing at the other candidates bickering. Love it. #DemDebate
- 01:20:38 Kamala food fight line was excellent. #DemDebate
- 01:21:39 Kamala hits it out of the park with her answer following the food fight quip too. #DemDebate
- 01:22:33 Warren was ill served by being with all the lower tier candidates last night. This is the real debate. #DemDebate
- 01:24:52 The level of debate today is significantly higher than yesterday so far. #DemDebate
- 01:25:52 Yesterday’s debate spiked Wikipedia views for Gabbard. https://t.co/Cy5X5lIfuy
- 01:26:47 I keep being struck by the difference between yesterday and today. Today feels like a real debate. #DemDebate
- 01:28:53 This is my first time hearing Williamson speak about anything. She’s actually holding her own so far. #DemDebate
- 01:31:35 Kamala wins a talk-off with one of the sub 1% people. #DemDebate
- 01:33:12 10/10 say their government healthcare plans would cover undocumented immigrants. #DemDebate
- 01:39:51 Kamala kicking ass so far. I liked her anyway, so I’m biased. But I think she is having the strongest showing so far tonight. #DemDebate
- 01:42:10 Retweeted @Helflower 01:41:07 @abulsme @djrothkopf Her timing is perfect, and she wins while benefiting the whole team. in reply to abulsme
- 01:42:15 Retweeted @rob96006763 01:41:18 @abulsme @djrothkopf No doubt about. Rooting for a strong Bernie show but Kamala has been the star for sure in reply to abulsme
- 01:46:28 Biden and Sanders both seemingly mostly fading in the background to the others. Almost everybody else is making a stronger impression. This is notable. #DemDebate
- 01:48:46 “Should not be the focus”, but Biden can’t just say “No” on if someone without documents but no other crimes should be deported. Weak. #DemDebate
- 01:50:08 Retweeted @basketballmygod 01:43:02 Can you imagine her debating Trump? I would pay to watch that https://t.co/u7NZ4quypo
- 01:52:44 Most memorable so far: #1) Harris, #2) Buttigieg, #3) Gillibrand. The rest are not making a big impact here and seem rather generic. #DemDebate
- 01:54:20 Yang gets to talk again. #DemDebate
- 01:55:04 Retweeted @cbcatch 01:53:40 @abulsme She’s awesome. Biden also did well. Mayor Pete was a big surprise and I had pretty high expectations. But Kamala is killing it. in reply to abulsme
- 01:57:26 Retweeted @jhale300 01:55:43 @abulsme @MalcolmNance A Kamala/Pete ticket would be awesome. in reply to abulsme
- 01:59:07 Retweeted @shelleyaw123 01:58:05 @abulsme @RepSwalwell may not come out of this debate on top but his call to #PasstheTorch deserves a meme. in reply to abulsme
- 02:00:41 Oh no. Chuck Todd again. Sigh. #DemDebate
- 02:01:23 Please more Maddow, less Todd. Last night Todd talked way too much. #DemDebate
- 02:04:23 My connection keeps buffering. Frustrated. #DemDebate
- 02:05:26 Harris directs a comment straight to Biden about the segregationist Senators. #DemDebate
- 02:05:58 Biden looks like he took a heavy punch from Harris bringing up bussing. #DemDebate
- 02:07:28 Biden’s response is muddled. #DemDebate
- 02:08:22 Biden loses by even getting into this bussing debate at all, let alone trying to defend his old position. Kamala is stopping Biden. #DemDebate
- 02:08:52 Retweeted @politicsluo 02:08:46 Damn Harris took Biden to town
- 02:09:20 Biden in super defensive mode is not a good look. Kamala crushed him. #DemDebate
- 02:10:07 Retweeted @JessicaValenti 02:08:45 Biden is unable to apologize. For anything. She is *murdering* him. #DemDebate
- 02:10:16 Retweeted @mattgaetz 02:08:44 Did Biden just call the clock on himself cause he lost his train of thought? #DemDebate
- 02:10:24 Retweeted @ezraklein 02:08:42 Biden arguing he was for states rights on busing is not the best look.
- 02:10:32 Retweeted @FrankLuntz 02:08:42 Hell of an exchange on race between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.If Kamala Harris becomes president, it will be because of this moment. #DemDebate in reply to FrankLuntz
- 02:10:45 Retweeted @jaclynf 02:08:28 Biden still yelling “It’s just a flesh wound!” after being torn limb from racist limb by Kamala Harris. #DemDebate
- 02:10:52 Retweeted @dbernstein 02:08:38 Joe Biden up here basically insisting that the federal government should have stayed out of school integration.
- 02:11:00 Retweeted @ClaraJeffery 02:08:11 Harris did not come to play.
- 02:11:17 Retweeted @lynnv378 02:08:36 She took it to Biden there. And cross examined him. She did that. She did that.
- 02:11:43 Retweeted @MikeDrucker 02:07:51 Kamala is going to have to prosecute herself for murdering Biden
- 02:11:52 Retweeted @RalstonReports 02:08:33 This is something.Not good for Biden.
And Harris going after him will be played over and over again in the next few days.
- 02:11:55 Retweeted @EricMGarcia 02:08:33 Did Biden just stop himself from talking? that’s got to be unprecedented. #DemDebate
- 02:12:53 Sorry, missed the last couple of questions, still replaying Harris crushing Biden in my head. #DemDebate
- 02:14:04 Biden 100% in defensive angry mode now. He is in a tailspin. Needs to get it together. #DemDebate
- 02:14:25 Biden is now a seething mass of rage. #DemDebate
- 02:16:41 OK, now that Biden has been knocked down a few pegs, time for someone to go for Sanders. #DemDebate
- 02:17:52 Sanders not answering the question at all. #DemDebate
- 02:20:33 Biden staring into the distance. He knows he got schooled. #DemDebate
- 02:25:47 Biden flubs 2020 vs 2030. Easy mistake, but he is clearly a little flustered still. #DemDebate
- 02:26:35 Biden keeps showing up in background shots looking defeated. Like he wants to cry. #DemDebate
- 02:26:46 Pass the Torch! #DemDebate
- 02:27:23 I heard the Moon was part of Mars. #DemDebate
- 02:29:25 Sanders rejects the premise. Boo! #DemDebate
- 02:38:17 Stupid MSNBC live stream kept repeating the ad and didn’t come back from break on its own. When it seemed like it had gone on way too long I had to stop and start the stream to get back to the debate. Not sure how much I missed. Boo! And still more buffering. Unhappy. #DemDebate
- 02:42:44 They are still letting Chuck Todd talk way too much and not giving enough to Maddow. Bad MSNBC. Bad. #DemDebate
- 02:50:44 Closing statements already. This debate seemed to go by much faster than yesterday’s. #DemDebate
- 02:53:05 Retweeted @CillizzaCNN 02:52:29 This about sums up his night https://t.co/9I304tHwTT
- 02:53:42 Retweeted @joshtpm 02:20:30 Harris’s refusal to stop talking until she’s done talking sends at least as powerful a message as her actual words.
- 02:53:52 Retweeted @ComfortablySmug 02:53:34 No one up there is making eye contact with Kamala lmaoooooIt was a fucking prison yard beat down. She has them all fucking shook. Biden is going to have to hold her pocket when she walks around lmaooooo
- 02:54:18 Retweeted @Olivianuzzi 02:35:54 According to Biden’s staff, he isn’t listening to his debate prep and he’s “set in his ways,” the source close to the campaign tells me. in reply to Olivianuzzi
- 02:54:40 Yang is still here? #DemDebate
- 02:59:08 Winners: Kamala, Kamala, and Kamala. She won hands down. OK, and maybe runner up awards for Buttigieg and Gillibrand.Losers: Biden, Biden, Biden, and Sanders too. They were both sidelined, but Biden was stomped badly by Harris.
Entirely forgettable: All the rest.
- 03:13:29 Retweeted @ClistonBrown 03:12:40 When Kamala broke out that food fight line, I had two thoughts:1) She came to play tonight.
2) Everybody else on stage shut up and let her talk. She commanded respect. - 03:20:19 I don’t think this scenario is likely. But it is not impossible. And yes, heads would explode. https://t.co/vGC9YrbEPm
- 03:21:38 Retweeted @dbernstein 03:11:54 Re-watching The Exchange, it’s especially harsh how, after Harris spoke emotionally about her experience, Biden didn’t give any empathetic acknowledgment, but started by calling her wrong, and then took that вЂI didn’t become a prosecutor’ shot at her.
- 03:22:33 Retweeted @Naseeoh 03:09:51 Most crucial moment of the night: Biden’s utter inability to respond to a vulnerability *everyone* knew was coming. https://t.co/f87RQHGfZr
- 03:23:55 Boom https://t.co/qMnCTd7rrO
- 03:25:34 Retweeted @kasie 01:31:00 Just saying that every woman watching this debate knows what it’s like to have a bunch of dudes try to talk over her
- 03:26:27 Retweeted @DavMicRot 03:11:04 @NateSilver538 It is not just about whether or not the polls react to Biden’s performance, results of debates will trickle slowly to voters, but Biden proved himself unprepared, over-matched, and unable to defend either his record or policies which will serve him poorly for the next X months. in reply to NateSilver538
- 03:51:50 Retweeted @WajahatAli 03:23:11 America should be proud that two women, in my opinion at least, have emerged as the winners of the first #DemDebates. Warren and Harris are both smart, experienced candidates who have more Presidential talent and ability in their pinkie than Trump’s entire vulgar body.
- 03:51:56 Retweeted @UweBollocks 02:17:35 @StuPolitics Biden should smile more in reply to StuPolitics
- 03:55:02 Retweeted @NateSilver538 03:07:19 I pretty much agree with the conventional wisdom (Harris great, Buttigieg good, Bernie meh, Biden bad) but Biden’s one of those candidates that the CW keeps guessing wrong about so let’s see the polling.
- 03:56:22 Retweeted @HaleighHoffman 02:27:39 This is the best moment of the night. Biden avoiding Bernie’s hand. #DemDebate2 https://t.co/owQV70Jxdy
- 03:56:34 Retweeted @aseitzwald 03:46:26 NEW: Kamala Harris crushed @IndivisibleTeam‘s flash poll of its members. n=4,500Harris – 65%
Buttigieg – 15%
Biden – 7%
Sanders – 7%
Gillibrand – 2%
Bennet – 1%
Swalwell – 1%
Williamson -1%
Yang – 1%
Hickenlooper – 0% - 04:00:13 Retweeted @JoyAnnReid 02:45:24 Oof. Thread. https://t.co/DjuJFcsHod
- 04:02:09 Retweeted @intelligencer 03:46:02 Debates don’t always have clear effects, but Thursday’s #DemDebate did: Kamala Harris is going to be propelled into the first tier of candidates. @jonathanchait writes https://t.co/h6jJqox6YN
- 04:10:32 Retweeted @WesleyLowery 03:45:59 kamala harris’ face just now when Chris Matthews declared “ethnicities. I don’t like the word race…ethnicities!”
- 04:23:09 Retweeted @MikeGravel 02:28:39 “What’s the one issue you’ll focus on as president?””Defeating Donald Trump.”
Joe Biden is an idiot.
- 04:57:10 Thread https://t.co/TA460IAMhP
- 05:01:52 Yes, debates on busing in the 70s were actually somewhat complex. But the only thing that survives through to 2019 is “wait, you were against integration?” That’s why even having this issue mentioned is a blow to Biden, let alone trying to explain and defend his old position. https://t.co/1QgNIwdZrv
- 05:04:05 Retweeted @lynnv378 04:52:44 The true loser of tonight.His name is missing from all substantive discussions tonight.
Bernie Sanders.
- 05:05:32 <symbol> https://t.co/fd4uYz2zmK
- 07:06:10 Retweeted @WorldAffairsPro 06:34:09 Laughing and smiling, Trump gives Putin light-hearted warning: ‘Don’t meddle in the election please’ – smirking and wagging his finger at the Russian president https://t.co/zh4xKMhGJa via @cnn #g20
- 14:51:06 Retweeted @ClintSmithIII 13:01:44 Still sitting here thinking about that Biden response to Harris last night. It’s not hyperbole that the entire bedrock upon which Jim Crow stood, the entire premise upon which even slavery was grounded, was the idea that the rights of black people should be up to “local control.”
- 14:59:36 Retweeted @JFKucinich 01:23:58 The last two minutes in summary:
Swalwell: Biden, you are old. Gimmie the torch.
Biden: You try to take this torch from my cold dead hands.
Bernie: YELLING
[Everyone starts yelling]Kamala Harris: I will take the torch, now. Thanks.
[silence]
- 15:13:16 Retweeted @DavidRutz 13:14:11 .@Timodc pointing out sharp contrast between Harris and Biden teams on display last night … Harris has photo on Twitter ready to go, coordinated with Biden attack. Biden’s team … leaks to reporters they’re all freaking out about how bad he did.
- 15:14:45 Retweeted @nataliesurely 15:03:13 A Facebook friend just asked why Medicare for All advocates want to abolish private insurance, instead of keeping it for people who want it. Here’s my basic answer: https://t.co/rDWbrHgHwo
- 15:15:24 Retweeted @chrislhayes 14:20:10 I’ve heard a bunch of people mention things like “so and so would lose 48 states” and I think that fundamentally misunderstands how deep structural polarization is. I’m pretty sure Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson would both win at least 20 states.
- 15:16:34 Done. Recurring. https://t.co/MAycYjwUhV
- 15:31:41 “Right now we’ve got two parties trying to make moderates homeless.” True. So pick a side. There is no longer a viable middle. -> Dems, Please Don’t Drive Me Away (David Brooks) https://t.co/ImINhE7DOQ
- 15:33:37 Retweeted @gtconway3d 12:20:54 Harris would annihilate Trump.
- 15:33:49 Retweeted @SusanPage 14:36:44 NEW: Former president Jimmy Carter says a full investigation “would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016….He was put into office because the Russians interfered.” Does that mean he’s an illegitimate president? “Based on what I said, which I can’t retract.” https://t.co/Y3UFUBIIDy
- 15:35:25 Retweeted @RVAwonk 04:22:39 A lot of suspect accounts are pushing the “Kamala Harris is not Black” narrative tonight. It’s everywhere and it has all the signs of being a coordinated/artificial operation. #DemDebate2 https://t.co/DTeB2qWJnm
- 18:48:59 Retweeted @DavidWright_CNN 18:25:17 Joe Biden offers fulsome defense of record on race (remarks in Chicago today): “I heard and I listened to and I respect Senator Harris. But, you know, we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange can’t do justice to a lifetime committed to Civil Rights” https://t.co/f5uMYUzry5
- 19:12:34 Retweeted @KoriWasinger 17:51:18 @msleen1970 Kamala Harris isn’t the reason Joe Biden lost the other three times he ran for president, either. Joe Biden is. in reply to msleen1970
- 19:14:11 Retweeted @dandrezner 16:31:24 I’m breaking my Twitter siesta again because of @ewarren‘s new State Department plan. I’ve been critical of her foreign policy writings and super-critical of her foreign economic policy program. Her ideas to rebuild State, however, are goddamn spectacular. https://t.co/a1oMvC2O69
- 19:42:19 I’ll wait a bit for poll averages to settle in a bit, but this is quite interesting anyway. -> https://t.co/80DiveZTIa
- 21:38:35 Retweeted @AoDespair 17:01:35 A year ago today, two of my friends — and three of their colleagues, all ethical and committed journalists — were all murdered in their newsroom for doing a job essential to the life of a republic. The President of the United States is a vicious, ignorant, fascistic cretin. https://t.co/R9mwwdWGzv
- 21:43:33 Retweeted @AustinJ 17:16:22 TIL that if you go North of the Arctic Circle in the summer and bring a MacBook with Night Shift set to be triggered by sunrise/sunset, the process will go into an infinite loop because the sun never sets… https://t.co/AmyrGmTvbx
- 21:51:23 Retweeted @TalbertSwan 00:47:34 If ONE white woman accused me of rape my career would be OVER.A white man accused of rape by TWENTY TWO women being able to run for a 2nd term as POTUS, with half the country still supporting him, is all you need to know about racism, white male patriarchy and white supremacy.
- 21:56:36 Retweeted @chrislhayes 14:50:18 We should just ditch this whole primary thing and just have a small panel of Never Trump Republicans solomonically decide which Democrat would make them most comfortable.
- 22:10:14 Retweeted @cmclymer 22:03:50 I could not disagree more with this. She made Biden look unprepared and unserious, and she did it while exuding competence, compassion, and righteous anger. She looked like a leader. https://t.co/X54WxYtgYM
- 22:13:55 Retweeted @AngryBlackLady 22:02:51 What is wrong with this guy. Honestly. He’s running for President in the 1980s. https://t.co/RWBMhOtTDH
- 22:54:40 Snort. https://t.co/t9upl3Uagl
- 23:01:00 Ha! https://t.co/j1Q6xlX7QL
- 23:17:30 Retweeted @jkarsh 23:17:02 The smartest thing for Biden’s camp to do would be to keep him away from all microphones until each debate. He’ll still lose the nomination, but his lead will last longer. https://t.co/TLcHbIDmaj
- 23:18:14 Retweeted @Anime_Now90 23:11:35 I like how @JoeBiden is proving @KamalaHarris point. https://t.co/nksYIS0rdF
- 23:41:28 Long way to go there. https://t.co/ZTdq1SmXVb
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