9:44 PM: I’m sorry but this intra-family risk pooling that Carson is talking about is perhaps the most ridiculous thing anyone has ever said.
9:46 PM: Cruz can’t alpha Trump. But at least he can stomp Wolf Blitzer.
9:49 PM: Cruz has managed to corner Trump into ceding the ‘die in the streets’ position to Cruz.
9:50 PM: This ‘dying in the streets’ debate is a good example of the way Republican elites managed to convince themselves that their middle class and working class supporters are laissez-faire free marketeers who want to cut their own Medicare. Cruz thinks he managed a huge coup by proving that he will let people “die in the streets” whereas Trump will not. Completely meaningless point in policy terms and one that makes him look stupid to basically everyone who’s not employed by a right-wing think tank in Washington. (And because Trump is saying it, everybody gets that we’re talking about white people.)
9:57 PM: Constant audits? Seems like kind of significant? What? (I think the moderators didn’t follow up on the audit thing because they were so floored they didn’t even know what to think.)
10:02 PM: “I haven’t even started on her.”
10:03 PM: Classic Trump: “Last week in Nevada, I beat him in a landslide. Hillary Clinton irk take a look at “USA today,” take a look at the Q poll, I beat her and beat her badly and I only had one little interchange and that was four weeks ago when she said I was sexist and believe me, they had a rough weekend that weekend between Bill and Hillary.”
