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Hi, this is Sarah Holland from the left and Beth Silver's from the right. Welcome to another episode of Pantsy

Politics. Today we're really excited. We're going to talk about Iowa predictions because we're recording on Sunday

and we're also going to talk about our own political experiences and I have an exciting

announcement to make to make in this episode. So, to be a fun one. It should be and we get to start

with my favorite thing in the world, which is debate recap. So, we had a lot of people watching

their Republican debate with us. It felt like, which I really appreciated and enjoyed on Twitter.

Um, highs and lows for me. So, I'll start with highs. Donald Trump wasn't there and it was fabulous.

It was like, we were suddenly back on earth, you know what I mean? Oh, it's so true.

And I think that it pointed out, so my husband fell asleep and the next morning,

who could blame him? Who could blame him? The next morning he was like, what do you think?

And I said, Chad, what is that thing called where a car is going really fast and another car gets

behind that car and then just kind of coasting? Yes. Isn't that what Ted Cruz is doing? Yes.

Without Donald Trump on stage, Ted Cruz, I thought just crumbled. I think it was a couple of

things. One, I think he had like a bunch of canned jokes that fell really flat and he realized that

they felt flat and then Chris Wallace just shut him down and then everyone was piling on him and

you could just sort of like all of his smarmy kind of swagger, he just seemed deflated.

Which didn't trouble me really. Like I was good with that. So those were highs for me.

And I would also say, I thought there were sections, not the entire debate, but I thought there

were sections where there were actual debate questions and actual policy differences being discussed.

And I found that very refreshing. There was an exchange between Rand Paul and Marco Rubio

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