and I was upon us and Biden hits the hoodies. We'll discuss all this and more on this

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MDD, we had probably a forgettable debate between Ron Desantis and Nicki Haley and the final days here before Iowa.

This is a matchup that a lot of people have been waiting for.

They wanted the debate stage to whittle down which it steadily has but it wasn't a lot of

it was not particularly enlightening or edifying or pleasant to watch DeSantis came out of the gate with a sledgehammer directed at Haley and they just went

back and forth with this just really impossible to follow set of accusations about lies that each of them

were telling. They settled out of that a little bit towards the middle and I thought DeSantis, even though I've been critical of him in

prior debates for not being willing to mix it up and instead just using his time as

an occasion to give a little campaign speeches I thought he was better when he was

a little more positive and enunciating his vision.

And I thought Nicky kind of lost on points.

Obviously, she has mocked heavily for mentioning this website 16 times Ron DeSantis Lies.com and she has a

tendency I think both of them do but she has a real tendency to talk too fast

and there's some answers I just I couldn't I'm sure I read them and they

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