Jake Tapper started tonight by saying they’d ask questions Republican voters care about and now he’s pressing the candidates on climate change, which is not going to affect GOP votes.
Tapper on climate issues yet again frames the question entirely in the Democrats’ terms, then gets snippy when DeSantis talks about what he’d actually do and points at China as the major source of the carbon emissions problem.
‘I haven’t see Biden hold China accountable, except to make sure Hunter got his money,’ DeSantis retorts to CNN’s loaded climate-change question.
Zinger.
I know Frank Luntz doesn’t do his old dial-measures that he used to do for Fox News, but I think DeSantis talking about pairing service dogs with veterans to help them cope with PTSD is the sort of thing that would make the lines on those dial-charts rise to the top. After a night of relentless negative criticism and sniping back and forth, it’s just a breath of fresh air to hear anybody talking about a possible solution to a problem.
DeSantis says he supports block granting Medicaid.
Asking whether presidents should prevent states from using Medicaid expansion assumes that the presidency is the legislative branch. That is not how the American system of government is supposed to work.
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Bash asks yet another question from a liberal premise, that it’s bad for states not to expand Medicaid.
If you’re confused why TikTok continues to advertise during GOP primary debates, think of it this way: The GOP primary debate audience is generally very online, older, and has negative opinions of Mark Zuckerberg. They’re on Facebook but aren’t happy about it, and TikTok sees an opportunity to expand into a new demographic for the platform.
Haley is far more liberated by her position (competing in New Hampshire, rather than Iowa) to criticize Trump for his authoritarian impulses, but she’s also done a better job of it; painting Trump as an endless chaos agent is a stronger attack against him than his opponents ever seem to realize.