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Following Wednesday’s portion of the first 2020 Democratic debate, CNN’s exclusively liberal panel decided that Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) was the winner, while some thought it belonged to former HUD Secretary Julian Castro. Then, after the second half of the debate on Thursday, the CNN panel gushed and uniformly agreed that California Senator Kamala Harris won the day.
“I think Kamala Harris owned the night. It was a masterful performance from her, unexpected in many ways,” senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson praised in reference to Harris’s fight with former Vice President Joe Biden. “[I]t was unexpected to have her go for this topic around race and around busing and use her personal story to really prosecute the case against his position on busing.”
Host Anderson Cooper agreed, noting that Harris “also used her opportunities very well.”
CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger thought Harris’s past career as a prosecutor worked to her advantage and made Biden look “fuzzy” and with no strategy.
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