9:06 PM: Rubio’s not doing terribly but putting on the kind of performance that basically made it impossible for him to ever breakthrough. Tired mainline GOP talk from the last two decades, bland, with none of the anger or ideological force which is the coin of the realm this year.
9:09 PM: These foreign worker hiring out-source consultancies is a fascinating subject. I’m glad I learned about it from Rubio. But his campaign’s dying. He needs to talk about something besides an obscure point that doesn’t have real political traction in any way.
9:14 PM: Introducing new policy wonk Trump. (Almost a firmware upgrade.)
9:16 PM: Wait, did anyone see Trump crack that coke out from under the lectern while Ted was talking?