The maximum number of candidates with which one can have a real debate is five. Past five, you can’t get everyone in on any question.
Fox should show some of the families I’ve seen in midtown Manhattan. Moms and dads and children who look so sad, so uncertain. Someone lied to them that things would get better when they got here. Someone took their money for more fear.
Immigration is an important topic but doesn’t really divide anyone on the stage
This debate needs three fewer people onstage, at the very least. There is an actual substantial argument to be had here, but too many do not belong.
Christie (like Trump in certain moods) wants much more legal immigration. I think there’d be an opening for a candidate who disagrees.
The impenetrable cross-talk is inevitable. The hour is late, and I think candidates that don’t show some life in the polls in the days after this debate will come under media and donor pressure to drop out. Standards for inclusion in the next debate should go up so that we have only the top 3-5 candidates.
Dana Perino got hit in the face by a shoe in Iraq. GOP candidates, don’t mess with her.
Vivek is playing Mr. Nice Guy this debate – a stark about-face from his churlish performance on last month’s debate stage. It might appeal to Republican voters, who dislike internecine conflict, but it will do little to dispel the perception that he is fundamentally inauthentic.
I like Tim Scott, but what has he done so far that he’s being treated like he’s ahead rather than irrelevant?
Vivek talking about how everybody else on stage is good people is a real change in tune from the last debate, when he said they were all bought and paid for by donors.