Watched every minute of this. Will reserve judgment overall still but winners vs. losers split:

Winners: Warren, Castro, Klobuchar, Booker, De Blasio, Inslee (FYI, I hope SNL can get Woody Harrelson to play him on Saturday).

Losers: O’Rourke, Ryan, Delaney, Gabbard

Beto needs to be the first to go after last night.

I don't think Beto presented well last night. But I think this is an absurd statement.

I don’t think so. If his top issue is immigration, yet every candidate on that stage was more prepared to discuss that issue, it speaks to Beto as a candidate. The top concerns about him coming in centered around him not having the policy acumen to adequately compete against the other Democrats. He quite literally looked like he’s running because he’s the cool kid in town who apparently doesn’t need to do his homework. And in addition to that, he did not come across as charming but instead as forced and unprepared to answer questions so he offered worthless platitudes. If we’re going to start weeding out candidates so there’s less of a cacophony of candidate noise and we get down to making a real choice, let’s start with the candidates that can’t articulate a substantive reason to be here other than I ran in a close race for Senate.

Random thoughts:
--I thought Beto did OK. Not the best, but not as bad as some have been making him out to be.
--I always thought Castro was being underrated, and I thought he proved me right last night. Same with Booker, though he's been considered more upper tier for a while.
--Warren seemed to have three phases. The first one, where she just ran through a grab bag of all her ideas, I thought did not go off well. But in the middle, when she focused on one specific issue, she was more lasered in, and I thought that was compelling. And then in the third phase she mostly went silent. Not sure if that's bad, or if was good just to let her opponents beat each other up.
--Gabbard sounds like someone that could linger around for a while, despite her underdog status.
--Felt disappointed by Klobuchar and that she didn't stand out much among the crowd.
--The first one I'd eliminate from this group was Ryan, I really can't remember anything he said. At least Delaney and DeBlasio were valiantly trying to get into the debate despite being on the far ends.

If you're part of the Samantha Bee "run for Senate, goddamnit" brigade, then that's the only logical way I could understand tossing Beto first.