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NBC News analysis declares Donald Trump the winner of first Democratic debate

An NBC News analyst declared President Trump the winner of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle.

Author and reporter Jonathan Allen expressed surprise that Trump emerged "largely unscathed" as the field of 10 candidates mostly avoided direct attacks on him.

Allen said the Democrats seemed more focused on positioning themselves furthest to the left to win over primary voters, rather than appealing to the swing voters that decided the 2016 election.

"For long stretches, it seemed, they completely forgot about the man who has been at the center of pretty much every discussion among Democrats for the last two-plus years — the man they're competing to take on next year. The obvious reason: The motivation to beat each other was, on this night, more urgent than defeating Trump — a life-or-death moment for some of their campaigns. Trump was the chief beneficiary of that dynamic," Allen wrote.

The sentiment was shared by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who said it was “a missed opportunity” for Democrats to not go after frontrunner Joe Biden or President Trump. Another MSNBC commentator, Donny Deutsch declared confidently after the debate that none of the 10 candidates on the stage could defeat Trump next year, including Warren.

Meantime, New York Post columnist John Podhoretz saw things similarly, taking particular issue with the candidates' far-left push on immigration. He said the candidates "spent far more time talking about how they would help illegal immigrants than about how they would help the voters they most need to win over" and that will benefit Trump.

NBC News analysis declares Donald Trump the winner of first Democratic debate
 
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volfanhill said:
In fairness, Trump didn’t win his home state.
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Another political "rule" that Trump broke in 2016, among all the others. It is kind of amusing to think that as a politician (which Trump was not until 2016) he could lose a Senate race in his home state then run for President. That's akin to Obama losing the 2004 Illinois US Senate race, then running for President immediately after.

Usually Presidential candidates win their home states; technically, New York was the home state for both Clinton and Trump, so by definition one of them had to lose it. Gore lost Tennessee in 2000 and he paid dearly. All of the focus was on Florida, and rightly so, but if he won Tennessee the Florida result wouldn't have mattered.
 
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37L1 said:
I can't wait for Jose Biden.
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I guess we will find out what American drunk old man Spanish sounds like tonight. Maybe he will pull a page from the Hillary pandering playbook and just speak English with a despicable Latin accent... pandering always depends on your audience.

“I don’t feel noways tiaarrrd”
 
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tennvols77 said:
Not one who has a plan, and no one knows how to achieve any of the things they talk about except immigration, which was pretty simple, open the border. That's the only plan with an action that achieves any policy they have muttered on about.

Empty and vague and generalized phrases, and not one idea how to accomplish anything other than open the border.

These are your "unemployables", people who couldn't hold down a real job and are forced to be politicians.
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Didn't you hear the policy detail they are covering is incredible?
 
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Weezer said:
I'd be interested in knowing which candidates the liberal posters support and why.
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If I was forced to vote right this second, it would be for Pete. I agree with a lot of his ideas, I like his message. He's articulate, respectful, a military vet, intelligent, speaks about 42 languages, he's only a few years older than me so we share a lot of the same concerns/values, plus he's center-left but not Bernie left. I don't agree with him on everything, but he is who I've sided with the most so far. Time to shake up the old guard.

It is still way too early though, glad I don't have to decide today. I like Pete, but I also like Kamala and Warren. Tulsi really impressed me last night, I need to research her a bit.

I just really hope Bernie doesn't win the nomination. I'm a never-Trumper, but I really don't want to have to choose between those two.

Orange man bad, screech, etc.
 
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