What are news media outlets around the world saying about Valley Congressman Tim Ryan's performance in the first debate among ten Democrats hoping to win the White House?

Congressman Ryan was the last to speak up among the ten candidates on stage.

Vindicator Editorial Writer and Political Analyst Bertram De Souza says, "Either he had to have been much more aggressive or he should have said something that would have grabbed headlines today, and he didn't, he was too timid."

News outlets around the country had Ryan listed as one of the losers of the debate.  The Toledo Blade saying Ryan was mocked on social media "... some saying he blew any shot of advancing in the race."  The New York Post says, "It's time for him to gracefully exit the stage."

21 News Political Analyst Dr. William Binning said, "This campaign's on life support."

An unfortunate moment came for Congressman Ryan in a confrontation with Representative Tulsi Gabbard - an Iraq War Veteran.  The Representative from Hawaii corrected Ryan about who attacked the U.S. on 9/11 saying, "The Taliban didn't attack us on 9/1, Al Qaeda did."

De Souza said, "Factually he was absolutely right about the role that the Taliban played in the 9/11 terrorist attack.  Because of the fact they allowed Osama Bin Laden to live, and set up his training camps for terrorists in Afghanistan."

But with little time to explain during the debate, Ryan's camp sent out a statement for damage control.  Dr. Binning says if his star doesn't shine in the next debate at the end of July --  it will be too late.

"If he doesn't do that then he is probably done," Dr. Binning said.

21 News did a Google search on the words “winners, losers, and democratic debate”.

Here are the results of that search:

Who won the first Democratic presidential debate?

Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio: Not the strongest night when your most memorable moment was defending the unpopular U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, in an exchange with Tulsi Gabbard in which he also seemed to conflate the Taliban and Al Qaeda: "When we weren't in there, they started flying planes into our buildings." Challenged on his facts by Gabbard, Ryan then noted it was Al Qaeda, a terrorist group that received protection from the Taliban, that carried out the 9/11 attacks.

Ohio's Tim Ryan flopped in first Democratic debate

Tim Ryan needed a breakout moment to launch his presidential bid, but what he got instead was a black eye. The northeast Ohio congressman, who is polling at the bottom of the pack in his long-shot bid for president, was mocked on social media for his performance at the first Democratic primary debate Wednesday night, with some saying he blew any shot of advancing in the race.

Tim Ryan’s coveted moment eludes him at first Democratic debate: analysis

Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan was hoping to have his moment that launches his longshot presidential campaign into the upper tier of candidates at Wednesday’s debate. But it didn’t come.

With nine other candidates on stage, Ryan seemed like an afterthought to the moderators. He rarely spoke and failed to interject himself into the two-hour forum as other candidates forced their way into the spotlight. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts commanded the stage and former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro saw his star rise. Even New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose candidacy has been mostly ridiculed by the New York media, managed to have a decent showing.

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan:

It’s time for him to gracefully exit the stage. He can’t accept that he already lost the fight over the direction of the party.

TULSI GABBARD FACT CHECKS TIM RYAN AFTER HE INACCURATELY CLAIMS TALIBAN ATTACKED U.S. ON 9/11

Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii called out and fact-checked Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio during the first Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday evening, after her congressional colleague and fellow 2020 contender inaccurately claimed the Taliban flew planes into American buildings.

The confrontation between the two presidential candidates came as Ryan suggested the U.S. needs to be "completely engaged," referencing Afghanistan and Iran. Gabbard, who is a combat veteran of the Iraq War, cut in, arguing that the U.S. should withdraw its forces from Afghanistan and finally bring the country's longest war to a close. After a brief back and forth, Gabbard pointed out that "the Taliban was there long before we came in. They'll be there long before we leave."

Tim Ryan offered a compelling case for Democrats’ need to appeal to working-class voters, and it got some tepid applause and little buy-in from other candidates. It wasn’t exactly a lesson on how you enact actual policies.

Tim Ryan

Blinking, sputtering, and licking his lips, Ryan struggled to defend his position of sustained “engagement” in Afghanistan from Tulsi Gabbard, who served in Iraq. When Ryan, backed against a wall, declared of the Taliban, “When we weren’t in there, they started flyin’ planes into our buildings,” Gabbard had to remind him it wasn’t the Taliban who attacked the U.S. on 9/11, but Al Qaeda. Yikes.

Rep. Tim Ryan

The fairly unknown congressman struggled to find his footing during the first portion of the debate. But what really sank his evening was a gaffe involving the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

The Ohio lawmaker incorrectly stated that the Taliban attacked the United States on Sept. 11. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who is a veteran, quickly corrected him.

“When we weren’t in there, they started flying planes into our buildings,” Ryan said of having troops in Afghanistan.

Tim Ryan and John Delaney got in a decent amount of airtime each - around seven minutes - and scored some decent soundbites on immigration and climate policy.

Losers

Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, offered a compelling case for Democrats’ need to appeal to working-class voters, and it got some tepid applause and little buy-in from other candidates. It wasn’t exactly a lesson on how you enact actual policies.

The magazine's online Intelligencer website offers a list of how well the candidates performed. Congressman Ryan came in ninth out of the ten candidates

9) Tim Ryan

The Ohio congressman argued that the Democrats have “a perception problem,” as their party is seen as “being coastal and elital — elitist and Ivy League.” He offered no clear proposal for how the party was supposed to rectify this problem, beyond nominating Tim Ryan for president. But the congressman made that proposition seem less attractive later in the debate, when he claimed that the Taliban had attacked the United States on 9/11, and answered the question, “Who is the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States, in one word” with “China, without a question. They’re wiping us around the world … economically.”