hours of the debate with the bit there that you played about mrs. bush being the exception, not the rule, i thought he was i don t want to say low energy but i thought he sounded like a politician. i thought he looked a little queasy generally in terms of engaging trump, like he knew he had to do it, he didn t really want to, didn t really have the heart for it. i thought in the last hour of the debate, he was quite good. the problem is you really want to be as good as you possibly can when the most eyeballs are on it. he certainly was not bad in this debate. i thought he was sort of mediocre and then moving toward good. i thought he got stronger as it went. maybe that s enough. i think he certainly did better than, for example, scott walker, the everyone governor of wiscone thought needed a big night, headline, show some energy, some fight, and didn t get it at all. and finally, hallie, what will donald trump be doing in rochester later today?
benghazi and on e-mails. ed? well, i thought carly fiorina did well yesterday and i expect her to get the biggest bump out of it. i think donald trump did not do well, was on the defensive, didn t handle substantive issues very well. i think he ll go down but that s what i thought after the first debate and he went up, so who knows. i thought scott walker actually did well. i thought governor christie did well. i thought marco rubio did well. interestingly, a poll came out this morning from michigan, michigan republican primary, and trump and carson are in the low 20s, bush is at nine, rubio s at four, fiorina s at three, kasich and walker are at two and christie s at one. so they have got a long with the exception of new hampshire, this other tier of candidates has a long way to go. that s the bad news for them. the good news is there are four months to go until iowa so there is plenty of time.
candidates. at the same time, we have spoken with voters here in new hampshire, folks who are conservative, folks who support trump, who say that s okay. they like his style, they like the fact that he got some zingers in. there is some concern maybe about the name calling. people seem to be somewhat hesitant about that. but his supporters are still very into what he represents. look at, for example, that drudge poll out last night that showed that trump was far and away the quote unquote, winner of the debate last night. he was sort of an interesting person to look at. the other person of course that we are all talking about today and you have already discussed is carly fiorina, who appeared to get a lot of the sentiment especially on social media as she came out with some good responses, good attack lines against trump that brought out a lot of applause. people who we thought were going to sparkle on stage, ben carson, for example, i spoke with a campaign staffer this morning who s
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