Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and it is our debate

show.

If you watched the Republican debate, you saw some lively moments, Senator, you watched

it, I watched it, give me your overall takeaway, who is the big winner and was there even

a second place?

So you and I are recording this, it is 11.41 pm East Coast time, I'm in DC so the debate

just ended a few minutes ago, I got to say my reaction to it, this was a bumpy debate,

there were a lot of rocky moments, I think most of the candidates did not help themselves,

but my clear conclusion from tonight is the big winner was Ron DeSantis.

Why is that?

Well, I did not think that in debate one, so remember debate one, we came together and

I said the winners in debate one were Vivek Ramaswami and Nikki Haley and a little bit Mike

Pence and the real winner was Donald Trump because all three of them were elevated and

that hurt DeSantis and DeSantis needs to make it a two man race with Trump and so that

was my take on debate one.

I think going into tonight DeSantis needed to do well and I think he rose to the occasion,

I think he did by far the best of anyone on the stage.

Number one is just the behavior of the others.

I think they bickered like children and I don't think it helped them.

I think when they were just yelling at each other back and forth and back and forth and back and forth,

when you see a bunch of people screaming at each other, they don't look like presidents.

They're not behaving like presidents.

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