last night. but, you and desantis combined are 55%. all six of the other candidates on stage together, combined, didn t beat you and desantis that s pretty stunning. i think the debate was pretty useful last night. it smokes out real ideological differences in the g.o.p. laura: you bet. that s going to make the party and the country stronger. that was a successful evening. and the reality for me, laura, is that even though we had some, what i would call banter on the basketball court last night, i still view the other people on that stage as colleagues in our national revival. i expect to be the next president. i expect to win in a landslide. but i will require, respectfully, each of those people to play their respectful roles in our national revival as well in some way because this is a team sport. and you brought this up earlier. it s not the job of the u.s. president to automatically bring back faith in the country. but i do think it s an important point to pause on where the
inside the g.o.p., period end of story. now it s just a question of beating the democrats and attracting more independence, which we are already doing. how many americans today want our economy tied to china s? how many are ryan are getting mired in more wars. how many want illegal aliens flooding our country. how many want our government weaponized against political enemies? it s happening at a state level tonight. how many people think that hunter biden was just an ambitious international capitalist or that his father wasn t helping him? so who won the debate last night? the american people won the debate last night. because we showed, once again, that the republican party is moving in a new direction and that s the angle. joining me now charlie hurt opinion editor of the washington times and mollie hemingway editor and chief of the federal list. both are fox news contributors. i want to get your reaction to the debate in a moment. what we are seeing tonight at
i amgen winly worried that that american dream will not exist for our two sons and their generation unless we do something about it. laura: okay. this is an important point. remember, reagan was really optimistic in 1984 because he had been president for four years and he fixed a bunch of stuff. go back and listen to watch reagan s warnings during the carter years? he was tough. now, look, it s pretty simple, the two people doing the best in the polls before the debate obviously, after trump, were desantis and ramaswamy. center stage after the debate the washington post poll the two candidates still doing the best are the ones that agree with the base on the critical issues. desantis according to the post is at 29. ramaswamy 26. haley at 15. pence at 7. the two populist, desantis and vivek combined get 455%. now, this is obviously not a cult we are talking about. it s obviously grounded, this belief in the populist ideal is
trumpless g.o.p. debate slowly but surely the public is getting to know these candidates. here is the angle handy thumbnail analysis. these two guys are irrelevant. i think i took them a little too literally when they said go to milwaukee and break a leg. whenever i was in the bush administration, we went down there and met with president vicente fox of mexico. every job i had growing up was one where i are took a shower at the end of the day not at the beginning of the day. solution is not four more years of donald trump. no one ever asked the question what about the crime wave in small towns? i said that donald trump was morally disqualified from being president again. laura: speaking from 1996 was asa hutchison. the candidate most likely to wind up as an msnbc panelist that award goes to. here s the bottom line. someone has got to stop normalizing this conduct. okay? [cheers] [boos]
as you see the scene right now. the coverage with the drones and the chase suvs of donald trump being brought fulton county courthouse to be fingerprinted, get his mugshot taken and the left thinks this is the ultimate in humiliation. your reaction tonight? i think this is shameful, laura. this is an indictment not of trump but of our national civic health that we have gotten to a place where we have a party in power that will use any charge in any jurisdiction four at the same time in the middle of an election designed, mark my words, to stop their lead political rival currently from running. and i m saying this coming out of a debate last night that went very well in national polls i m now in second. it would be easier for me if my competitor in this primary, donald trump, were eliminated from competition. but that is not how i want to win. that is not grounded in