What does the GOP debate tell us about what to watch out for in the election year ahead?

I'm Monica Perez and this is today's deep dive.

Well, I gotta say it has been a while. I haven't done a deep dive since May. I basically took

the summer off to move into a new house to get my kids off to college. I know I have to defend that,

but I'm a libertarian. I let them make their own choices and so I felt like I should get back in the saddle with something easy so I noticed there was a second GOP debate yesterday and I thought well

let's look at what the candidates are right now and what the issues are right now and see if what were

you to see what to expect what they're setting us up to expect over the next election year what they want us to focus on.

And I also, you know, I think of this stuff as a play, like a real honest to goodness play.

So when I, when I think about what to, you know, how to evaluate it, I don't think like who's making the most sense or whatever.

I think like are they giving people layups I mean are they all in the

same page on some topics are there some things that the GOP is like okay this is

what we stand for and I think I discovered some of these things. They have us

focus on some issues and not others. They phrase them in certain ways, they

cash them in certain ways. So I thought we would just take like an overview of what this went, how it went down and

nothing too deep but you know let's see what we what we think now and then maybe

we'll revisit it like a year from now and see how it all shook out. So the most, so

Donald Trump was not on the stage, the, which earned him the little funny by

Chris Christie, called him Donald Duck because he ducked the hard

debate anyway but the most recent poll I read which is undisputed, but it's that Trump would beat

Biden by 10% and forget about if you actually look against the Republican

candidates, whatever reason.

I've really been checked out over the summer so I don't know how or why

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