This sums up the primaries regarding Tulsi (& Yang) who both exploited it for

[themaguffin]

selfish reasons and were never aligned, let alone interested in the party platform.

In fact, I think both are intent on hurting Democrats - I've always felt that about Tulsi. Yang may just be a generic grifter, but both ar bad.


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[betsuni]

1. If Democrats raised the debate threshold there'd be screams of RIGGED!1!!!!11

The anti-Democratic conspiracy theories never end. Because revolution or something.

[Bettie]

2. Tulsi always made me uncomfortable

she just never seemed at all genuine. We often drive the Democratic party float in parades in our county. The same 15-20 people showed up at every parade, with signs and t-shirts, walked with the float, never spoke a word to anyone, then, took off. It seemed like it was a job, not real support for a candidate.

I thought Yang was a basically decent guy who was in way over his head, running for president. Boy, was I wrong on that one...

[pinkstarburst]

3. Debate thresholds should be looked at

I thought it was ineffective to have 20 people (10 each night) in the first two debates. No one could get a word in edgewise and it was a contest to see what lower tier candidate could fling the most shocking sound bites and most badly hurt the candidates who actually stood a real chance. Not what we need for the general.

We would do better this time around to have two debates, but if we're going to let 20 candidates debate, have the first night be candidates 9-20. Second night is the ones who rank 1-8.

Each debate should get harder to get into and if the field is over 10 people, should be split into two nights by rank, not randomized. We don't need someone like Tulsi Gabbard or that woman who was just there to promote her book taking shots at a serious candidate who is likely to be our nominee. I hated watching Julian Castro, who had no chance, take cheap shots at Biden.

[2naSalit]

4. The debates were awful in that respect.

A lot should be looked at regarding them this time around.

[BluesRunTheGame]

5. We need to be careful about this...

We wouldn’t want to end up excluding someone like Pete Buttigieg. Remember he was the mayor of a small Midwestern city and was pretty much unknown before then.

Tulsi was a congresswoman who’d been Vice Chair of the DNC.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Primaries have turned into

book-selling tours. You have people "running" who have no expectation whatsoever of being the candidate.

[themaguffin]

7. Yeah agreed and on the GOP side, had it been much smaller, trump might have been averted.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Neither Yang nor Gabbard should have been in these debates