Stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stakes are higher this time around, candidates fundraising boost out of this debate to get their campaigns to keep going. And also to qualify for the next debate. They all have to get momentum out of this. Previous years, republican president ial primaries, by this time in the calendar highprofile candidates had already started dropping out. So, if past is prologue, its
Today on inside politics, republican candidates get busy bruising each other in a debate marked by insults, prepared oneliners and plenty of pettiness. Plus the speck call starts. Today is day one of the Impeachment Inquiry into joe biden. Republicans promise a show and tell. The democrats retort, wheres the evidence. And danger knocks, President Biden is in arizona to warn the country and rerevive a 2020 and 2022 Campaign Theme that democrats believe worked. That maga extremists are a singular threat to american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and ininside politics. Up first, A Chaotic Cross Talk filled debate that gave us more questions and more insults, but little clarity about who, if any, of these candidates can truly challenge donald trump. The front runner was not there again, but you could sense the desperation among those on stage to find a breakthrough moment. You could see and hear that more and more Donald Trumps republican rivals realize they wont win
Im Rachel Maddow here in msnbc with my beloved colleagues, chris hayes, joy Reid Stephanie ruhle. Great to all be together in this difficult time we will be joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom in a little bit. He was there at the debate, god bless and we will get his take on what went down tonight the debate is just now wrapping up after two hours of talking stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stake