chris christie who took on hillary clinton most directly. and i think in the second debate it was jeb bush who kept mentioning her over and over and over again. and what that s about is telling a republican audience that, i mi m i m the person who can take on hillary clinton. i m the candidate who s the most electable ayinde can take her on on the issues. it s also a way for jeb bush in particular to avoid, say, taking on marco rubio who he didn t have such a great luck taking on in the last debate, right? so it s a lot easier to take on somebody who s not on the stage than somebody who is, although i would argue, brooke, that what we heard last night in this debate was a lot of internal, subtan tiff disagreement between the republican party about how they move forward on key issues. we heard about a lot of the key issues. this really was issues,