Welcome. It is a special pod verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, with you and also

Senator Cruz's book Un Woke, How to Defeat Culture Marks of America.

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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 at 1030 at night the debate just ended and I didn't see anything

this evening that that fundamentally change the race.

We are seeing the fields 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 has 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, it is shrinking down to

DeSantis and Nicki Haley. You saw the other candidates on the stage. Chris

Christie continues just just throwing

throwing bricks at Trump but not not getting as I see at any significant traction.

Tim Scott, I like Tim a lot he's my colleague he's my friend but but he has been

having real trouble getting traction in this race and Vivek look the

Vivek had some some moments, some fiery moments, but at the end of the day, most of the dynamic tonight seemed to be a battle between Desanis and Haley, and you could tell they were both throwing some hard

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