new york. sg here perception. ? i expect as you also make it up in the polls. i think he s got a ceiling. it was interesting to talk to people on this panel. seemed to resonate with men then women. universally off putting to women. non-scientific analysis i m giving. all the momentum you saw between nikki haley. this is a true policy division. these are two different candidates, different experiences and running on different things. they are in last break within the party. here s the thing, vivek has not articulated why him over trump. if anything, he is positioning for something i would argue maybe a fox news gig or something. but he does not make that case. nikki haley laid out why her other than trump. still down 40. points but at least made that distinction. the last question was the right. did donald trump help or hurt himself? i ve been sitting here wondering, did the single
like he has right now has ever been beat. now, anything can happen. but i think the proof they are watching ramaswamy, who is slogan after slipping after slogan, not a lot of depth there. maybe he feels that it is a campaign goes on, give him the benefit of the doubt. but the establishment posit politicians were so frustrated by him just like they were frustrated by donald trump in 2016. he was essentially trumps fill in tonight on that stage, and the reaction in the room tells you it is going to be very difficult to take the party away from donald trump. that is what every one of those candidates is trying to do, ramaswamy was his proxy tonight, and the crowd loved it. yeah, i agree with that. i would have to say that, you know, people ask beforehand was it a gamble for trump not to be there? i don t think it was a gamble, but if it was a gamble, he won big tonight, i think. because of what john said, he is in control of this race, and the only way that he can lose this race is if s
ones that we were just talking about, needed to prove tonight that they were fighters. so, they had to pick someone to fight with. a lot of them picked vivek ramaswamy because he is sort of the newbie and has the sort of smugness that apparently rubs mike pence the wrong way. people without trump on that stage really needed to show that they can put up a fight as good as they can take. that seems to me to be the big takeaway, and i was also like alyssa said a little surprised because that is not really pence s demeanor. talking to his advisers coming into this debate, i could sense that they were preparing him to really take it to some folks and i think we saw him do that. i spent four years with someone who said it was not complicated, and now he is stuck on the stage next to somebody else. and maybe that is why he is so annoyed, i don t know. the biggest question is, can somebody take the party away from donald trump? he was not there tonight, but he is the far away far awa
take trump out and he was the insurgent to all of the republican establishment wound onto as a guy who could stop trump. if he is now, needing tonight to try to be a circuit breaker because he has a bad story after bad story. and i do not think he did that tonight. you forget that all of those things will be for the six-week abortion ban. before the disney fight. he said tonight that he said i when i got asked about the abortion ban, he said i won by a landslide without mentioning the fact that he did not sign that six-week abortion ban until after he won the landslide and i would guess that he would not have done quite as well in florida if you had signed the ban before the election. have a slightly different view of desantis. i thought, and it was early, so we don t remember two hours later so much. i thought he got off a good rip on nation in decline. the biden economy.
accomplices in trump s project here of tearing down the justice system and turning down faith in our institutions. and it is a cop out to say they are doing it because it s too politically risky. to take him. some point have to say, no. chris christie was out there. so this is more than about trump. it s really among all republicans that these institutions and agencies are tilted against not just trump, but republicans. if you compare to other people situations. chiefly the bidens or hillary clinton. so that s why they do that. because while republicans may know mike pence to do a, thing with a really, really worried about is why did everybody else get away with stuff dame trump? so it s more than the january 6th. it s more to than that. i understand. there are several elements to this. for moderating that debate, i