I guess Joe Biden won tonight’s debate because he was awake, didn’t slur his words too much, and double-talked his way out of numerous attacks by reminding everyone he used to work with Barack Obama.

Biden got a big assist from Kamala Harris, who proved that her intellect is a mile wide and an inch deep, and that her electric moment attacking Biden in an earlier debate was a one-off. Tulsi Gabbard ripped Harris on her record as a prosecutor, and Harris never addressed the specific charges against her.

But most of all, this was sleep-inducing. It was so sleep inducing that at one point Kirsten Gillibrand was caught off guard when asked a question, as if she was napping, and didn’t know what the question was. So she mumbled something about Trump.

When she was awake, Gillibrand did what she does best: embarrass herself.

Biden just put a dagger in a desperate Kirsten Gillibrand, audience erupted in response, Gillibrand struggled to respond Biden says to Gillibrand: "I don't know what happened except you're now running for president" pic.twitter.com/yfAeWHyGyH — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 1, 2019

It made last night’s debate seem, by comparison, riveting.

There also was a weird vibe of candidates attacking Obama policies, particularly deportation, as a way of attacking Biden.

These candidates are attacking Barack Obama’s policy positions more than Donald Trump. That is politically stupid and crazy. — Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 1, 2019

Ok. Let me get this straight. Democrats hate Obamacare AND hated his immigration policies? What planet are they from? — Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 1, 2019

If I were a Democrat watching tonight, I’d be deeply depressed.



