The first debate was won on substance, not theatrics - with surprisingly few references to Trump or Biden
There were passionate diatribes against economic inequality, dire warnings about the climate emergency, and shockingly few references, direct or oblique, to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden. The first of two opening Democratic presidential debates was a policy-oriented affair with fewer theatrics than many feared, in which the major frontrunners attempted to solidify their status and those with low poll numbers tried to break out of the crowd.
The star of the night was Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, the policy wonk and founder of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau whose small-donor, detail-focused campaign has gained momentum in the polls over the past weeks and whose continuous stream of policy rollouts have set the standard by which other candidates position themselves to her right, or, less commonly, to her left.
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