Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.

Welcome in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.

Well, they had a debate, Buck. I'm not sure that it changed anything. We are going to react. We'll

open up the phone lines. Our only guest today, Carol Markowitz, who was front and center last night

at the Ronald Reagan debate. And we'll see what she thought from on the scene coverage there.

She's going to join us about halfway through the show. But, Buck, here's my big takeaway.

And I'm curious how you would react. And by the way, like I said, open phone lines.

If you watch the debate, you can react as well. 800-282-2882. We said going into this debate

that really the big picture question here is, is there going to be somebody that goes toe-to-toe

with Donald Trump? And everybody out there has to kind of, everybody else has to drop out. Is

there that willingness to do it? My biggest takeaway here is, and it's what I thought would likely

be the case. There are two people, it seems to me, who are viable alternatives to Trump

that could be left standing throwing haymakers at him. Coming out of this debate, I think it is

Ron DeSantis, obviously the governor of Florida and Nikki Haley. I thought Doug Bergham had a really

good debate. I thought that there was a clear top four to me, regardless of how you would assess

everybody else. In no particular order, DeSantis, Vivek, Haley, and Bergham. And Bergham doesn't

really have a chance to be the nominee, but I was really impressed with him and how logical and

consistent he was. Mike Pence, I thought, was totally, he's a non-factor he's done. And he has been

for some time, but I thought even more so on the stage. Chris Christie, he's running. I thought

you said it. I went and looked at your reactions to Buck. I thought you said it well. There's two

guys on the stage that hate Trump and that's why they're running. Pence and Christie, like they

don't have a chance to actually be the nominee. And so that's kind of my big takeaway is, how would

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