Thread by @bansisharma

1. The D Dozen on Debate Stage Tonight

A thread to capture "in the moment" reaction, if and when someone says or does anything noteworthy.

2. Klobuchar just said "Make America Great Again" 4-5 times while trying to put Trump down. She doesn't understand how political slogans work.

3. Hunter Biden said he showed poor judgment in getting on the board of the Ukrainian company Burisma. Joe Biden just said he is proud of the judgment Hunter made. SMDH

4. Mayor Pete creamed Elizabeth Warren on Medicare For All.

5. Klobuchar just went for Elizabeth Warren's jugular on Medicare For All.

6. Kamala Harris just demonstrated once again why she is totally unqualified. She just punted on healthcare reform by resorting to a talking point about reproductive healthcare.

7. Booker follows in Kamala Harris's footsteps and declares 'Women are people.'

8. Biden said something about raising capital gains tax on people 'clipping coupons in the stock market.' Wut?

9. Well, well, well, everybody on the stage supports 'wealth tax.' In other words, nobody on the stage knows our Constitution. 'Wealth tax' is unconstitutional to begin with, and for a good reason.

10. Every Democratic candidate's only foreign policy is to attack Donald Trump.

11. Pete Buttigieg is a good debater, and he is plenty smart. Beto is no match for him. Whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, they could do far worse than to pick Buttigieg as a running mate.

12. Kamala Harris is filibustering with a long winded obfuscation to avoid answering a direct question, "Do you support confiscation?"

13. Andrew Yang is plenty smart too, but in a kind of way that would make him an excellent consultant, lobbyist, or staffer. He is just not cut out for any elective office.

14. Kamala Harris's candidacy is on life-support. I don't think it will make it.

15. Biden says he decided to run because of his age, as 'with age comes wisdom.' Did he just throw serious shade on Obama?

16. Booker: "Robert Bork is laughing in his sleep." Booker was talking about whether to break up big tech companies. Go figure!

17. Elizabeth Warren just swatted down Kamala Harris as a pesky heckler by refusing to join her in the gutter. Kamala Harris continues to chew on the bone of Trump's twitter account.

18. Biden finally landed one on Elizabeth Warren. She came across like an ingrate, taking credit for CFPB while denigrating Biden. Biden's comeback, "I got you the votes for your agency. I got it done," landed hard and good.

19. I don't think this debate is going to change the playing field much. Warren, Biden, Bernie will continue to lead the pack. Buttigieg should move up a bit. Everyone else will continue to hug the bottom.

The End

And the Winner of Last Night's Debate Once Again is ...

Donald J. Trump

I don't see any of the Democratic candidates on that stage besting Trump. 2020 is still President Trump's election to lose, regardless of who is running against him, and he is perfectly capable of doing so.

You know you had a bad debate night when an article next day, covering the debate performance, doesn't even mention your name.
Unmentionables:
1. Kamala Harris
2. Beto O'Rourke
3. Andrew Yang
4. Julian Castro
5. Cory Booker
6. Tom Steyer
newrepublic.com/article/155407…

See my tweet above, which I live-tweeted while watching the debate last night. Then read this article for details. I think she is pretty much done. One of the very rare occasions when I disagree with immeasurably astute @ScottAdamsSays.

nationalreview.com/2019/10/kamala…

See above.

WSJ: "Tuesday’s debate moved at a frantic pace as 12 Democratic presidential wannabes stuffed as many words as they could into their 75 seconds for answers and 45 seconds for rebuttals. All that talking, however, did nothing fundamental to alter the Democratic race."