2020 Democratic Party Presidential Debates in Miami
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Overview
2020 Democratic Party Presidential Debates in Miami are the first two 2020 Democratic presidential primary debates held in late June 2019 at the Arsht Center in Miami, Florida.
Background
On June 13th, 2019, the Democratic National Committee announced the list of candidates that would participate in the first primary debates.[8] The list of candidates includes:
Colorado Senator Michael Bennet
Former Vice President Joe Biden
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
Former Maryland Representative John Delaney
Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
California Senator Kamala Harris
Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper
Washington Governor Jay Inslee
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar
Former Texas Representative Beto O'Rourke
Ohio Representative Tim Ryan
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
California Representative Eric Swalwell
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
Writer and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang
The first debates were set to be split in two nights, with a set of 10 appearing on each.
Developments
June 26th Debate
On June 26th, 2019, MSNBC[1] aired the First Democratic Debate, which featured the first 10 of 20 Democratic candidates hoping to win the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidential candidate in the 2020 election. The first night included candidates de Blasio, Booker, Castro, Gabbard, Ryan, Klobuchar, Inslee, Delaney, O'Rourke and Warren. That evening an animation visualizing the fluctuation of Google search interest in the candidates was created on Flourish (shown below).
Beto O'Rourke Speaking Spanish
Beto O'Rourke Speaking Spanish refers to a series of jokes and memes about Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaking Spanish at the first presidential debate. In addition to jokes about his Spanish-language comments, some mocked the facial expression of opposing candidate Cory Booker watching O'Rourke speak.
WATCH: Beto O'Rourke delivers his first #DemDebate response in English and Spanish. pic.twitter.com/xxZSvvYTyq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 27, 2019
NBC's Audio Difficulties
At one point during the debate, audio issues interrupted the moderators several times, leading NBC to take a commercial break (shown below).
Tulsi Gabbard vs. Tim Ryan
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard had a brief exchange with Ohio Rep. Timothy Ryan, during which they debated the war in Afghanistan (shown below).
That evening, the official Google Trends Twitter[2] feed posted search query maps of the United States before and after the election, showing that Elizabeth Warren was widely searched prior to the debate, but was overtaken by Tulsi Gabbard afterward (shown below).
![Google Trends graphs Google Trends MOST SEARCHED DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES WA ND MT VT NH ahead of Miami debate 1 MN ME WI SD OR ID NY MI WY MA IA NE PA RI IL IN OH CT NJ NV UT CO wv MO DE KY VA CA MD TN NC OK AR AZ NM SC MS AL GA LA Elizabeth Warren TX Cory Booker FL AK Beto O'Rourke Tulsi Gabbard google.com/trends Google Trends MOST SEARCHED DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES WA ND MT VT NH ME during Miami debate 1 MN WI SD OR ID WY MI NY MA IA NE PA RI IN OH IL NJ CT NV UT CO KS MO wV DE KY VA CA MD TN NC OK AR AZ NM SC GA MS AL LA TX Tulsi Gabbard FL AK Cory Booker Elizabeth Warren google.com/trends 4 KS 17](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/160/2e3.jpg)
Livestream Takedowns
On June 27th, Justin Whang posted a tweet[3] condemning MSNBC takedowns of commentary streams (shown below).
![Justin Whang commentary channel tweet Justin Whang @JustinWhang Adding commentary over the debates is transformative and every Youtuber who had their streams wrongfully taken down should be financially compensated by @MSNBC 12:35 AM 27 Jun 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/112/c8b.jpg)
June 27th Debate
The second night, candidates Williamson, Hickenlooper, Yang, Buttigieg, Biden, Sanders, Harris, Gillibrand, Bennet and Swalwell appeared on stage.
Kamala Harris vs. Joe Biden
During the debate, Harris confronted Biden about his voting record on legislation that ordered using busing to integrate schools in the 1970s, to which Biden responded that he had not opposed busing but rather "busing ordered by the Department of Education" (shown below).
Shortly after, Twitter user @MattBruenig tweeted a picture of Harris and Biden facing each other while Sanders is shown standing in the middle with the caption "meme it" (shown below).
!["Meme it" - Matt Bruenig Matt Bruenig @MattBruenig meme it 10:38 PM 27 Jun 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/229/6d3.jpg)
Meanwhile, closeup screencaps of Harris addressing Biden were photoshopped and captioned with various jokes (shown below).
![Disintegration effect / Thanos snap / Joe Biden / Kamala Harris LIVE AMSNBC](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/234/2d8.jpg)
!["this shot is beautiful & should be taught in any film studies class" this shot is beautiful & should be taught in any film studies class #DemDebate2 LIVE NBO NEWS DEMOCRATIC DEBATE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/214/31b.jpg)
Also that evening, a tweet posted by Joe Biden's feed[9] received numerous replies using images of Kamala Harris laughing (shown below).
![Joe Biden tweet flooded with images of Kamala Harris laughing Joe Biden e ate JO Joe Biden played a key role in securing the extension of the Voting Rights Act-and has advocated for its renewal, and for stronger voter access protections, over the course of his career. #DemDebate VOTING R WAS THE THING STAL 0T M ENGAGEO IN POLITICS 1:14 104K Restare the Vate 10 T2 24-27 Jun 2013 2 t 1270 Lkes 1.1K E Jet y py Comfortably Smug Comablymug 10 Splying oeelem 234 O2 mare py d Hab Dr. chard Harambe Replying tooetiles 21 Ryanupkr 2 plying e](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/294/ba2.jpg)
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson sparked many discussions on social media after criticizing the American health care system (shown below, left) and claiming she would "harness love" to defeat Trump (shown below, right).
Additionally, Williamson stated that the first issue she would tackle as president is to contact the prime minister of New Zealand and say "the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up" (shown below).
When asked about the first issue they'd tackle if elected president, Marianne Williamson said she'd call New Zealand's prime minister to say "the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up" https://t.co/THE0z1clIy #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/0oFVTC4ddb
— CNN (@CNN) June 28, 2019
Meanwhile, screenshots of Williamson addressing the other candidates paired with humorous captions began circulating on Twitter (shown below).
!["me confidently making the wrong decision" my best friend my mother DENOCRATS conscience my bank y therapist acco nt me confidently making the wrong decision LIVE MSNBC DEMOCRATIC DEBATE](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/224/f2f.jpg)
!["When your bro brings the new girlfriend to poker night and she starts talking about healing crystals" Alex Griswold @HashtagGriswold When your bro brings the new girlfriend to poker night and she starts talking about healing crystals LIVE MSNBC DEMOCRATIC DEBATE 9:33 PM - 27 Jun 2019](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/205/300.jpg)
Shortly after, many of Williamson's old tweets began circulating on Twitter, leading user @ellievhall[7] to post a collection of the messages (shown below).
![Ellie Hall's "Amazing Old Tweets By Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson" Thread Ellie Hall @ellievhall AMAZING OLD TWEETS BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON: A THREAD 11:29 PM 27 Jun 2019 6,979 Retweets 19,919 Likes ね7.0K 928 20K Tweet your reply Ellie Hall @ellievhall 8h @marwilliamson Marianne Williamson Yin is feminine, earth; yang is masculine, sky. When God is seen as He, the soul is seen as She. Just archetypes. Spirit impregnates soul t 104 27 15K @ellievhall 8h Ellie Hall Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson Everyone feels on some level like an alien in this world, because we ARE. We come from another realm of consciousness, and long for home. t 121 1,4K 21 Ellie Hall @ellievhall 8h Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson When you're missing someone, know it just means that on a soul level they've come to visit ロ 71 17 1.2K Ellie Hall @ellievhall 8h Marianne Williamson @marwilliamson A grey sky is actually a blue sky covered up by grey clouds. A guilty person is actually an innocent soul covered up by mistaken behavior. 28 63 1.0K](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/291/e6e.jpg)
That same evening, Google Trends tweeted[8] a graphic revealing that Williamson ended the night as the top searched Democratic candidate (shown below).
![Google Trends Top Searched Democratic Candidates Google Trends TOP SEARCHED DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES During the second debate 1 Marianne Williamson 6 Bernie Sanders 2 Kamala Harris 7 Eric Swalwell 3 Pete Buttigieg 8 Kirsten Gillibrand 9 John Hickenlooper Joe Biden 4 5 Andrew Yang 10 Michael Bennet google.com/trends](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/293/7b2.jpg)
On Reddit
That evening, Redditor therealdanhill submitted a post titled "Discussion Thread: 2020 Presidential Race Democratic Debates | Night 2" to /r/politics.[4] An hour later, a second thread was created on the subreddit.[6]
On 4chan
During the debate, a thread titled "Democratic Party Primary Debates Night 2" was created on 4chan's /pol/[5] board (shown below).
![/pol/ thread on 4chan Democratic Party Primary Debates Night 2 Anonymous ##Mod 06/27/19(Thu)20:46:51 No.217694984 217699055>217699135217699475 >217699493>217699521>217699854 TONIGHT'S DEBATE 217699980>217700006217700010 217700117217700202 217700243 217700269>>217700272 217700275>217700318217700380217700439>217700510 9PM to 11PM Eastern, 6PM-8PM Pacific NBC News Stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-cX7hni-2GD8 [Embed] Candidates: Marianne Williamson John Hickenlooper Andrew Yang Pete Buttigieg Joe Biden Bernie Sanders Kamala Harris bre Kirsten Gillibrand Michael Bennet Eric Swalwell Anonymous (ID: otGdklzX) 06/27/19(Thu)21:22:48 No.217698753 Kamala is cringey as f---](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/508/207/d01.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] The Onion – Naked Andrew Yang Emerges From Time Vortex
[2] Twitter – @GoogleTrends
[3] Twitter – @JustinWhang
[4] Reddit – /r/politics
[5] Archive.is – /pol/ thread
[6] Reddit – /r/poltics
[7] Twitter – @ellievhall
[8] Twitter – @GoogleTrends
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