fight with trump, as katy was just walking us through, cruz has not shied away from publicly engaging with marco rubio, especially on this issue. they have really gone at each other as rubio has tried to get to cruz s right on an issue. this is a place where in some ways cruz may have made the wrong bet for the way events are turning out over the course of this campaign. of course, he had stood many times with rand paul in the senate playing to some of those the liberty movement conservatives, if you will. and he s still signing many of his e-mails for liberty. i was just on the ground with cruz in iowa and definitely going after people who caucused for rand paul and difficult for cruz and the way it s turning with so much focus of terrorism, become people s number one issue, that in some ways is turning out to be a liability and i think you will see rubio try to draw that out and don t underestimate ted cruz. he s a master debater and done
he doesn t alienate people and he seems to be more surrounding of the audience that he is talking to. what about kim, the people who let s assume trump does fall and there s no guarantee that that happens, but if it does who is there to peck up some of the voters? ted cruz. you know you saw that on the stage last night that that was, in fact something cruz was aiming for. overall, i did not think senator cruz really extinguished himself. and he is meant to be a master debater, and he is meant nothing he said necessarily resonated strongly at the debate. he was the other angry guy up on the stage. the other guy who said he is going to take on the beltway establishment, and that very much puts him in trump s shadow and if trump stays, i think some of the voters go to cruz. joe, you thought that chris christie did pretty well briefly. i did. he has put forward a very
most recent fox news poll. he was there last night. depending when people talk about leadership, they talk about kasich. i don t know if he will be the master debater that is required on that stage thursday night. speaking of which, this thursday, august 6th. this is the debate day that we team up with facebook to bring you the first republican presidential primary debate of 2016, of the 2016 race. live from cleveland. it all starts at 5:00 eastern. we want you to be a part of it. submit your questions by going to facebook.com/fox news and tell us what you want to hear from the candidates. now to the democrats. a new fox news poll shows hillary clinton is still the frontrunner but her numbers have taken a hit. they have hit a new low, 51% say they would vote for her now. that is a 10-point drop since june. meantime senator bernie sanders and vice president joe biden who is said to be considering a run, both made gains. arthur, i will go to you first
zingers. barack obama is an extremely gifted speaker. you might even say he s a master debater. that s what she said? zing. you ve got zing. captured the reaction to president obama s debate performance, we now turn the program to over to our good friend chris matthews. where was obama tonight? romney, i love the split screen, staring at obama, addressing him like the prey. he did it just right. i m coming at an indumb bent. i ve got to beat him. you ve got to beat the champ, and i m going to beat him tonight. and i don t care this guy moderator whatever he thinks he is, because i m going to ignore him. what was romney doing? he was winning! the man. chris matthews. crystallizing it all for us. i like how chris was outside in the hair. it added to the whole, you know, aura. chris matthews was a man on fire. up next, the washington post s eugene robinson and mike barnicle joins the conversation. jim cramer 90 minutes ahead of
ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha. i ve also been working on some that s what she said zingers. for instance, when obama is talking during the debate, i ll just interrupt him and say, that s what she said? ha, ha, ha. gets them every time. ha, ha. now, last week my campaign leaked a memo telling everyone to lower their expectations for my performance in these debates because as we all know, barack obama is an extremely gifted speaker. he might even say he s a master debater. that s what she said? ha, ha, ha. zing. you got zing. you got zing. that s what she said? oh, my god, i love him. all right. here with us now from that s what she said. here with us now from denver, we re going to go over the polls now. nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of the daily rundown. let s start with the battleground poll released this morning, and it shows where the