LIVE UPDATE: Friendly Fire GOP Debate
Will be recap-ing and added with analytical.
DC 9.41pm
Do you believe human behavior is causing climate change? Can you raise your hand? Ronald Dion DeSantis tries to shut down the idea of raising hands.
DeSantis railroads moderators, shutting down a show-of-hands question on whether humans cause climate change. “We’re not schoolchildren. Let’s have the debate,” DeSantis says.
The Fox News moderators of the Republican presidential debate just asked about young conservatives' fears that the Republican party doesn't care about Climate Change. Your reminder for tonight’s GOP primary debate: not a SINGLE Republican on stage includes a plan for climate change OR scaling back fossil fuels on their campaign website.
Hunter Biden reference. First from DeSantis and now from Chris Christie who talked about the penalty for the gun felony. "In a Christie administration, he would go to jail for 10 years." No one bringing up Trump, so the moderators are going to do it for them. My preliminary analysis of GOP debate is that every one of them is terrible and any one who even mildly hints otherwise is lying to you. Tim Scott on Fox News explaining why Republicans are skeptical of the Justice Department citing misleading rhetoric amplified by Fox News.
All candidates on the GOP debate stage except Chris Christie and Asa Hutchison raise their hands to say they would support Trump if he became the nominee, even if convicted. Ramaswamy, Scott, Haley, and Burnham raised their hands quickly; DeSantis and Pence paused first.
Every Republican except for Christie and Hutchinson said they would support Trump if he were convicted. Chris Christie: “Donald Trump said it is okay to suspend the Constitution. The vote you take is to preserve, protect and defend, not suspend. I will always stand up for our constitution regardless of political pressure.”
DeSantis looked around first to see how others answered and then raised his hand late. A very humiliating moment. “Mike did his duty, I’ve got no beef with him,” DeSantis says after being pushed about whether he believes Pence did the right thing on January 6th. DeSantis just got the debate *moderator* to clap back at him and remind the crowd that he’s getting creamed by Trump by 30-40 pts. Trump is gonna mop the floor with these goobers.
Nimarata Nikki Halley just threw Timothy Eugene Scottmunder the bus for voting to raise the debt. The same dude he, as Governor of South Carolina, appointed to become a US Senator when Jim DeMint resigned.
Two children of Indian immigrants onstage debating tonight as they run for President do the US, and another child of an Indian immigrant is Vice President (Kamala Devi Harris). Sometimes history is right in front of us.
Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa on January 20, 1972, at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina to immigrant Sikh parents from Punjab, India. Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, immigrated to the United States from Amritsar District, Punjab.
Ramaswamy was born on August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, to Hindu Tamil Brahmin immigrant parents. He was raised in Ohio. His family is from Kerala. His father, V. Ganapathy Ramaswamy, a graduate of the National Institute of Technology Calicut, worked as an engineer and patent attorney for General Electric, while his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, a graduate of the Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, worked as a geriatric psychiatrist. His parents immigrated from Palakkad district in Kerala, India.
Pence aggressive early--hitting Vivek and Haley. Pushes his way into the conversation both times.
Pence says the debt went up under Trump due to spending more money on the military and during covid This, of course, leaves out the more than $2.5 trillion GOP tax cut they approved. Republicans are currently pushing for more than $3 trillion in additional tax cut extensions.
Pence refers to Trump as “the one that’s probably looking on” (at the debate, from afar).
Third GOP US Presidential debate cycle in a row where I know candidates on the stage and or have been on their campaign national security policy teams. As Pence, Christie, Ramaswamy, and Haley have all squabbled, DeSantis has avoided the attacks his campaign said they anticipated (and were worried about).
Vivek Ramaswamy was borrowing a line from Barack Obama tonight when he described himself as “a skinny guy with a funny last name” on the GOP debate stage.
Awkward for Pence to have to talk about being pro-life when his demographic wanted to string him up like it was the day of the rope. Only around 1% of abortions are performed at or after 21 weeks. And almost always because of fetal anomalies, life-threatening medical issues, etc. No one supports abortion up until birth.
DESANTIS and HALEY both sidestep answering whether they will sign national abortion bans as president. Haley instead calls for a focus on bipartisan conseneus, DeSantis says only “I’m gonna stand on the side of life”
It is wild that these people want to stop helping Ukraine and go to war with Mexico also go to war with China (via Taiwan). CNN latest polling, majority of people in the US oppose Congress authorizing more funding for Ukraine in NATO's proxy war with Russia. But the weapons keep flowing to escalate the war, because, in the grand US "democracy", public opinion has zero impact on foreign policy.
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