ndand 2020.about it comes down to about 20,000 votes for. and, you know, i think, e toi you know, this debate tonight was was a great debate. gh every one of these folks t are better than joe biden. unfortunatelyjo. d i also think and it s a little harsh to say and i didn to sa want it this way,her. i wanted donald trump to be here, but i think he probablink he py the right dn after seeing tonight. because tonight, why do you sa t . because i think it looked? a little bit as an undercard debate tonight . nd i thi and i and i think that notha having the prize fighterhaving d i think not having donald trump on that stage took down the temperature a little bit, made it a little less, i think, attractive. and i think that i think that he probably the right decision. but the other candidates i mean let s be hones d the otht, this out 95% of the oxygen for the entire campaig n. they should have been happy that this was a moment for them to get their opinions across
done. i didn t want to bother him this week with all the the badd. th weather and issues of. yeah. now i m going to. great to see you guys. thank you. thank you for being on.is thanks. okay. i beingrnt the one of the candidates took a lot of heat. tonight was a relative newcomer ,the republican party, self-described outsider. take a look. taso first, let me just address a question that is on everybody s mind at home tonighquis on evst. who the heck is this skinny guy with a funny last name the and what the heck is he doing in the middle of this debate stage? i ll tell you, i m not a politician mnot bret.t that you re right about that. i m an entrepreneur. my parents came to thi.an entre s with no money 40 years ago. i have gone on to foun ago.d multi-billion dollar companies. i did it while marrying my wife. a poori di va, raising our two,w sons, following our faith in god. that is the american dream. and i am genuinely worriedand that american dream will not exist fowit r our tw
and then actually, unfortunately, good luck charm for barack obama. but the realit lucy is everybod on that stage had been on a debate stage before. this is mybebate s first time ih political debate. and i am thrilled with how it came out how it over exceeded my expectation. frankly, even trump inr exceed r outsider last time around, i think a second debate was a lot better than his first. i ot right.- frankly, this this one, i think obviously, one of the reasons is you re very media savvy. you have a you have a warm and enticing personality. g smil you smile. politicians don t smile enough. they need to smile enough more. i m not a politician. and honestly, it was fun. i hate to tell you, you re nowan officially a politician. months into being a politician, you re in six months. oncellya po you re inside, offin i m going to have to cringe. but wear that label. g to havbut i do think, john,tok it s going to take an outsider. i do not think whether it s endinn t thing war in ukr
and introduce themselves, like in the case of the fake ramaswamy, you know, who am i? why am i here? but who is going to take a a percentage of the vote from donald trump after tonight and maybe they can do it. maybe they can spin it outma their way. but the question is anybng spids is dishonest. donald trump, is it 55%? what percentage of that 55% thee are one of these other people is going to people going to take from o pto take ? that s really the question here, sean. it s that he s got thesetion he. four different indictments. he s got. he wasn t here at the debate. if the polls don t move appreciably after thisls don t,f it s hard to know what any of can . an do to effectuate it now, i was like you.i wa i wanted president trumpnt to com e to the debate. i believe in direct democracy. this is a sweet spot, this natural habitat. we want to hear from him. but if the point of this debate was to introduce yourself to voters, you don t duce you know, you he s the most popular person
i made promises and i delivered on all of those promises. 2024 is make or break. we re not getting a mulligan. no excuses. i will get the job done. and as your president, i will not let you down. god bless you all. we want to say thank you. thank you to all the candidates on the stage tonight. and thank you to milwaukee. thank you, everybody. we will see you on the campaign trail. from debates to primaries, the general election and the conventions before that. thanks for joining us, sean hannity from the spin room starts right now. take away john dickerson. all right. well, thank you both, by the way. great job, martha and brad. welcome to hannity rtha and. ea the very first debate of the 2024 campaign is now on the books. in tthe election season is officially up and running. and tonight, we re broadcastin g live from the spin room. we are in beautiful milwaukee, wisconsin, whereee in just a moment, we re going to hear directly from the candidates themselves. floridy fra governor de