Welcome, it is a special pod.

Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and also Senator Cruz's book Unwoke,

How to Defeat Culture, Marxism, America.

Congratulations, Senator.

It's at number one in multiple categories.

Right now on Amazon, if you haven't grabbed the book yet, get it.

It's incredible.

It is a special pod because it's the GOP debate.

And I want to get your first overall thoughts on the night, Senator.

I watched it.

I didn't really think there was any big shock or anything that's going to catapult somebody out of this debate.

I found parts of it a little fatiguing and just kind of boring.

Your reaction?

Well, I basically think that's right.

We're sitting here right now.

It's 10.30 at night.

The debate just ended.

And I didn't see anything this evening that fundamentally changed the race. We are seeing the field

start to win some. The last debate, there were seven candidates on the stage. This time,

there were five. And so you had Mike Pence's dropped out of the race, and you had Doug Bergam,

who didn't make the threshold for this debate. And so the field winnowing is significant.

I think you're seeing more and more that the battle for who is the principal alternative to Trump

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