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The first Republican debate on Fox News has reached its end.

Thank goodness.

What is it that the American people just saw?

It was a surreal evening.

Donald Trump is ahead in this race by 42 points, but you wouldn't know it through the conduct of a

single candidate on the stage this evening. None of them went after Donald Trump. Chris Christie did,

kind of. He talked through the booze. He fought through it, but he didn't lay a glove on Trump.

Nobody made the case against him. The most incredible moment of the debate, by far, is when the question

is asked, if Donald Trump is convicted, would you still support him as the Republican nominee?

Now, everybody raises their hands, except for Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie.

What's incredible about that is the pious, squinty-eyed performance of Mike Pence through the entire debate,

talking angrily at times about his love and his defense of the Constitution.

As MSNBC's Medell's son points out,

at the moment of crisis, what did Mike Pence do? He called Dan Quayle, and Dan Quail told him,

what are you talking about? Of course you have to certify the election. Mike Pence would support

the man that tried to hang him if he was the Republican nominee again, a man he talks about as having

asked him to betray his constitutional oath, which according to Mike Pence, is everything.

It is nonsensical. And when I talk nonsensical, that's before we get to Vevac Ramoswamy.

There are no words. The 38-year-old tech bro demagogue, the millennial fame seeker.

Boy, what a performance. The first thing to understand about Vivek Ramoswamy

is he's a demagogue. He reminded me of Crazy Eddie, who was in the electronic sales business in

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