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Beto Goes Bust
And other major moments from last night’s Democratic primary debate.
Journalists, political-theatre aficionados and the internet at large are all divided today over who the biggest winners and losers were in last night’s highly-anticipated Democratic primary debate.
It was the first of two debates, and Americans watched as the Democratic challengers sized each other up, squared off, and waxed poetic about a variety of progressive issues that have shaped the 2020 campaign season so far.
Voters got their first real look at some of the contenders who want to take on Donald Trump under the Democratic standard in 2020.
What did voters see?
Among the certain losers, tied in first place with NBC studio sound system problems which plagued the debate, was the Texas politician and once-Sen. Ted Cruz challenger Beto O’Rourke.
From the start, Beto’s campaign has been hampered by…Beto. In misstep after misstep, he has demonstrated from the outset that he is out of touch, out of step, and deeply out to lunch on any number of topics important to voting Democrats and public at large.
His performance last night in responding to one of the debate questions in Spanish was panned by critics as cringeworthy and overly-contrived. This isn’t the first time Beto has drawn criticism for…