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Vivek Ramoswamy with us now.

And I'm sure you're still kind of rolling on adrenaline, Vivek.

And what is your biggest takeaway having left this stage? Mine was, man, they really

ripped and attacked you more than anybody. Did you anticipate it? What did it feel like?

What's your biggest takeaway? I was happy. The result was great for us. I think we came out

with a big win and I wasn't totally shocked

because the difference is what you see in the campaign polls are a lot more precise than what

you get in the public narrative. And so I started at 0.0% in the month of March. I've now

entered second place in many of the national polls.

But when you see that trajectory change amongst the people who are most knowledgeable in the voter base,

that's something that I think worries a lot of the other campaigns and correctly so.

So they came at me hard, but I was ready for it in the sense that I don't do a lot of traditional prep with canned slogans, but talking to voters across this country, I've been more events than any other campaign. That's been

the best form of debate preparation, and that paid off last night, and I was glad to come out

as a winner. Mike Pence seems to genuinely dislike you. Did you get that sense on the stage? Like sometimes people disagree. I don't think

Chris Christie dislikes you. We're going to talk to him later. I think Nikki Haley disagrees with you.

And certainly, I think all of those politicians don't like being challenged by somebody who's not a

professional politician, which I think is a big strength of yours. But when I watch Mike Pence, he seemed to genuinely dislike you. Did you get that sense? Like, did you feel that way? I actually in one of the offline conversations, like in the commercial break, that congratulated Mike. I said, I didn't know you had that. I didn't know you had that in you. So I'm proud of you's actually what I told him. Because, you know, he's always a meek man. Seems like he's speaking what has been served up to him by his speechwriters or handlers. But he really, at certain points, I'll give him credit, did almost seem to be expressing independent beliefs of his own. And I give him a lot of credit to that.

So I told him that I don't know how he took it.

So by the way, that's an interesting point because when we go to commercial break,

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