Kevin Xu brings a special episode of his coverage of Day 2 of the Democratic Primary Debates in Detroit, Michigan, with both stories from real people he met in Detroit and his thoughts on the democratic candidates’ performance from the debate. TLDR: – the debates are not speaking to people like AJ O’Neil, who’s a local business owner and community activist – the fight to be in the 3rd debate continues with Congresswoman Gabbard landing the best punch of the night on Senator Harris – VP Biden survived the onslaught…barely – Senator Booker was effectively staking the party uniter role among all the argument – Senator Gillibrand performed very strongly but enough to get her to the next debate…? – Andrew Yang had a solid, on message performance that also exposed the phoniness of these debates, which is mostly reality TV