What Went Down On Night One Of The First Democratic Debates

Political scientist Lynn Vavreck wrote a piece in the New York Times about the importance of the post-debate spin. And part of me wonders if the entire first debate is going to be forgotten after tomorrow night, making it hard for these ten candidates to generate memorable moments.

Klobuchar had a good line about Trump conducting foreign policy by tweet in his bathrobe at 5 a.m. And it was oddly juxtaposed (simultaneously) by Tulsi Gabbard tweeting that Warren has dominated the debate time, which she really didn’t in the 2nd segment.

I’m actually not totally sure how that Castro exchange with Beto is going to play out for home viewers, though. It was pretty far into just interrupting/talking over someone territory instead of debating them. But … he has people talking about him, and that’s usually going to count as a win in this format.