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David Rothkopf
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Winners tonight:
1. @ewarren (by a good margin)
2. @PeteButtigieg (you may be president...someday)
...and then a substantial way back..
3. @SenSanders (by addressing tough topics for years)
Thanks to the rest of you for playing. Appreciate your earnestness.
Biggest loser: @CNN
@ewarren @PeteButtigieg @SenSanders @CNN Two other big winners tonight...maybe, I'm guessing, the biggest winners of them all...@KamalaHarris and @JoeBiden. Because this seemed like an opening act again. Tomorrow is the main event.
@ewarren @PeteButtigieg @SenSanders @CNN @KamalaHarris @JoeBiden Finally, biggest winners of all...folks who skipped this altogether. The real debates start in the Fall with much much smaller casts.
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