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Beto O’Rourke was the loser of the first Democratic primary debate

Americans woke up on Thursday and googled Julián Castro. Elizabeth Warren may have been the biggest name onstage at Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, the first of the…

By Lucia Graves

Beto O’Rourke was the loser of the first Democratic primary debate

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In the second Democratic debate, everyone else was an actor in Kamala Harris’s show

The Californian senator wrote the script to Thursday’s debate and delivered some devastating blows to frontrunner Joe Biden.

By Lucia Graves

Beto O’Rourke was the loser of the first Democratic primary debate

O’Rourke’s performance played into an ascendant narrative that there’s little substance beneath his charisma.

By Lucia Graves

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