So is there no rule that candidates get to respond to attacks?
DeSantis knows the military in a way that no one else on that stage does. Talk tough and act tougher.
Every time Vivek Ramaswamy speaks I expect him to end by saying “be sure to smash that like button, subscribe, and donate to my Patreon!”
DeSantis is the only one who speaks the muscular language of “touch us and you’re a ghost” on this stage, which rhetorically is a must for a GOP candidate. (Trump of course does this too.)
Haley easily brushes aside Ramaswamy’s insult and takes the fight to Biden’s foreign policy. Presidential.
Slayyyyy, Haley.
Is it just me, or does Chris Christie seem a little under-caffeinated tonight? Maybe it’s just that life-and-death issues like Israel and Hamas are so serious, it doesn’t easily fit his pugnacious, often-comic style.
Christie’s “the evil foursome” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “the axis of evil.”
DeSantis distinguishes himself on Israel by promoting his effort to extract by his count “over 700 people” back to the U.S. while Joe Biden dithered. Haley distinguishes herself by identifying Iran as the author of the region’s instability and creating a link between its provocations and it’s informal alliance with it’s funders and supporters in Moscow and Beijing. Vivek distinguishes himself by alleging that America’s obligations to Ukraine’s defense are a product of a corrupt quid pro quo with the Biden family and by calling Haley “Dick Cheney in three-inch heels.”
I love Tim Scott, but even his answers on foreign policy sound like he’s giving a sermon on Sunday morning. “Got to cut off the head of the snake… you cannot negotiate with evil!”