Good debate. Christie was most annoying. His responses were all simpleton platitudes. Vivek got the soundbite-of-the-night award for his opening salvo to Ronna. Moderators were surprisingly fair. Better than the FOX debates.
Totally agree. Hopefully Christie and "nice guy" Tim Scott (who apparently has a new girlfriend!) won't be on the debate stage next time. Scott got better as the debate went on though.
Surprisingly, the NBC moderators were fair, as you said. Even in the post-debate spin room. Fox should take note...
Vivek got the soundbite-of-the-night award for his opening salvo to Ronna.
Very true.
But he's also doing something important, by dragging out into the light on the debate stage the war in the Republican party between the donor class and Republican voters. The chair's most important job is to raise money and help win elections, two things that she's conspicuously failed to do. Vivek is pointing out that the base, which is largely with Trump at this point, isn't going to put up with an RNC that would rather lose without the deplorable Trump voters than win with them. Ironically, the Republican party always got more small donor dollars than the Democrats, and while that grass-roots fundraising never really moved the election dial, it did serve as a proxy approval rating for the party. That's not quite gone, but it's taken a severe hit in the past couple of cycles. Vivek is willing to point out that the Republican establishment emperor has no clothes. If nothing else, it's fun to see this long-simmering internal fight exposed so publicly.