The first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential primary is in Milwaukee, airing on Fox News and featuring Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and others but not Trump
i hate them as much as you, but always good to get intel on the enemy
I wasn’t familiar with Ramaswamy before, and part of me wishes that I still wasn’t. That guy is a whacko even in that stage and most of them told him so, which was about the only highlight. Audience cheered waaaay too much for comfort at some if the things coming out of his mouth including being the only one to explicitly claim climate change is a hoax. The others never said if they believe in it or not, they let Ramaswamy take the attention off that.
Christie did his Trump bashing, but doesn’t seem to have improved on any of his it beliefs. Mostly blamed libs for NJ problems. Did have a bit of fun when they asked him about aliens though.
Haley was, well, not a pleasant surprise, but it’s amazing how a few years can really affect who is “moderate.” She went for the throat regarding Putin, had a moderate, respectable for a Republican view about abortion rights, and called out China, and also a few fellow candidates for making up stuff.
Pence was about how you would expect. Got everyone to admit he did the right thing ignoring Trump on Jan 6. Otherwise nothing new from him. Still says he would support Trump as president.
Desantis did his anti woke crap and took credit for the federal aid Florida got after emergencies. Pretty much promised to make the US into Florida. Repeated a few times how he’s going to serve Biden “back to his basement.” He didn’t get much more attention than anyone else, so no new momentum for him.
Others were pretty much a snooze other than talking about using the military on the southern border. Won’t be dedicating any extra of my time to those guys. That’s about all I remember. Only half paid attention through most of it, I don’t swing that way, but I’ll hear them out.
oh no, you actually sat through the whole thing? Thank you for the roundup, I have a hard time stomaching the actual event. 5 minutes in i feel like a brain worm has burrowed deep into my frontal lobe
Honestly it was better than I expected. If Ramaswamy wasn’t there, I really wouldn’t have minded it that much. He just came off so sleazy to me. Christy said something along the lines of he was the ChatGPT candidate. If you had an AI make a young, slick, influencer-looking MAGA Republican, it probably would look a lot like him. He was very Trump-like in behavior, talking over people and saying purposely ignorant things. The rest were plain vanilla Republicans closer to what we used to get, except Desantis, and Scott to a lesser extent.
If either the Bush presidents seem bearable at this point to you, the rest of the candidates were as tolerable as Reps get. More just Crap Original Strength instead of Crap Ulta Plus Xtreme.
I wasn’t familiar with Ramaswamy before, and part of me wishes that I still wasn’t. That guy is a whacko even in that stage and most of them told him so, which was about the only highlight. Audience cheered waaaay too much for comfort at some if the things coming out of his mouth including being the only one to explicitly claim climate change is a hoax. The others never said if they believe in it or not, they let Ramaswamy take the attention off that.
Christie did his Trump bashing, but doesn’t seem to have improved on any of his it beliefs. Mostly blamed libs for NJ problems. Did have a bit of fun when they asked him about aliens though.
Haley was, well, not a pleasant surprise, but it’s amazing how a few years can really affect who is “moderate.” She went for the throat regarding Putin, had a moderate, respectable for a Republican view about abortion rights, and called out China, and also a few fellow candidates for making up stuff.
Pence was about how you would expect. Got everyone to admit he did the right thing ignoring Trump on Jan 6. Otherwise nothing new from him. Still says he would support Trump as president.
Desantis did his anti woke crap and took credit for the federal aid Florida got after emergencies. Pretty much promised to make the US into Florida. Repeated a few times how he’s going to serve Biden “back to his basement.” He didn’t get much more attention than anyone else, so no new momentum for him.
Others were pretty much a snooze other than talking about using the military on the southern border. Won’t be dedicating any extra of my time to those guys. That’s about all I remember. Only half paid attention through most of it, I don’t swing that way, but I’ll hear them out.
oh no, you actually sat through the whole thing? Thank you for the roundup, I have a hard time stomaching the actual event. 5 minutes in i feel like a brain worm has burrowed deep into my frontal lobe
Honestly it was better than I expected. If Ramaswamy wasn’t there, I really wouldn’t have minded it that much. He just came off so sleazy to me. Christy said something along the lines of he was the ChatGPT candidate. If you had an AI make a young, slick, influencer-looking MAGA Republican, it probably would look a lot like him. He was very Trump-like in behavior, talking over people and saying purposely ignorant things. The rest were plain vanilla Republicans closer to what we used to get, except Desantis, and Scott to a lesser extent.
If either the Bush presidents seem bearable at this point to you, the rest of the candidates were as tolerable as Reps get. More just Crap Original Strength instead of Crap Ulta Plus Xtreme.
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