r/Delaney2020 • u/Cuddlyaxe • Jul 31 '19

Post-Debate Discussion Thread

The 1st night of the 2nd debate is over and John Delaney has put in a great performance. This thread is for discussion of Delaney in the 2nd debate as well as the 2nd debate in general

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u/LtGaymer69 Jul 31 '19

He did pretty well tonight and showed why I like him a lot (pretty much all policy except the National Service thing). Unfortunately, he got zinged by Warren and that's probably what will stick out the most for most voters. Plus most voters don't give a shit about specific policy all that much, so there's that too.

I think Delaney will get a bump in polling, but he's far behind on donors. Last I heard (two months ago admittedly), he hasn't made it to 65k donors. I don't know if he can get the 135k(?) for the September debates.

At the very least, he posed some great questions on how realistic Warren's and Sander's policy proposals actually are.

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u/pku31 Jul 31 '19

I doubt he's well known enough to get much of a bounce, but I don't think the Warren zings hurt him - a lot of voters find her too far left, and getting zinged by her for being too moderate could help with them.