the questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the american people don t trust the media. [ applause ] this is not a cage match. you luke at the questions, john kasich, will you insult two people over here. marco rubio, why aren t your numbers falling? how about talking about the substantive questions. going after the media and politics. he did it artfully. he had that in his head. he couldn t have prepared that. that happened in the debate. right, i don t think they had it in his head. he s a brilliant guy. it was used a lot last night.
but in a way that s not going to hurt him right now. he has had a slight decline but that has more to do with the fact that this race is going to shift less about personalities and more about electing a leader of the free world. and i know jeff will disagree with me, that where is candidates like rubio are going to step up. paul, very quickly, we have carly fiorina next. did she do what she had to doey. she always turns in a good performance. even though 4% in the polls. she s never yet, it s early, but she s not yet proven that she can consolidate gains from a good debate. i don t see a capacity to consolidate the gains the way donald trump and dr. carson have. paul begala, kevin madden, the lord, thank you for being with us. ladies and gentlemen, what did you think about the debate last night? what do you think this morning? tweet us use the #newday.
him continue. that slow steady climb into the lane that jeffrey would agree is say race broken down in anti-establishment and establishment. i ve got to tell you, it s increasingly confusing to me. i get why you re trying to draw distinction unless field, jeffrey. but begala, i was wrong, you were right. just another example of this dynam dynamic. first time for anything. if you catalog all might have wrong predictions, chris, you d need like a two-hour segment. oh, thank you for being a bigger man, that shocked me. let me ask you this, last night, when you heard marco rubio using tone the way he did to disarm the jeb bush attack, using the connection to his own mother and her interest about his policy. seeing his acumen on the issues,
very crazy election year. donald trump and ben carson were almost nonfactors last night. you saw donald trump trying to show he could be more serious. he 150e very deliberately trying to not be bombastic. there was another 28-minute chunk where he didn t speak. much like the other, 37. unlike trump. maeve, you were in the room, was the feeling, i should say, that marco rubio won, as it seems to be today in the media? that definitely was the feeling in the room. and i have to agree with much of what maggie and john said. this is obviously, a strong inside, also for john kasich. and the very first exchange that came out fiery and aggressive as we were expecting him to do, his poll numbers have been flattening in new hampshire. he had a breakthrough night. he had a really good exchange where he came back at trump. he made have tried to reverse
because jeb bush had that teed up to go after the fact that senator rubio has missed some voting in the senate. and he was ready for it. well, so jeb bush had basically been telegraphicing for days that s where he was going to go. where is marco, he s not voting. joe was staying it on the stump. so when you have days to prepare for when someone is going to throw a punch at you, you have time to put your hands up and go like this. that s what rubio did. the mccain response was brilliant. jeb bush had had absolutely no comeback for it. jeb bush tried to say something. and marco rubio stopped him which was problematic which was jeb bush s problem all night. he had very little talk time. he never seized the moment either. he never recovered from early on. i started hearing from some of his supporters within minutes they could not get over what they were seeing. every supporter of his, to a person, said to me, we had a terrible night.