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

we get to do a joint podcast, which is really fun for both of us.

And Senator, you just watched it.

We got to watch it together.

You got to commentate on Hannity afterwards.

And your initial takeaway from this debate, I thought J.D. had a pretty good night.

He had an excellent night. It is 11.05 p.m. just after this debate. I thought J.D. had a pretty good night. He had an excellent night.

It is 11.05 p.m. just after the debate. As you noted, I just finished doing Hannity and talking about the

debate. I think this was a good night for America. The winner of the debate tonight was Donald

Trump. The loser of the debate tonight was Kamala Harris.

Yeah. Both candidates, I think, did an effective job. Tim Walts was, was frankly better than I

expected, but he had a very difficult case to make because his job was to defend Kamala Harris's

record. And the reason that I think it was such a good night for

Trump is I think J.D. did a good job of prosecuting Kamala Harris's actual record. She is

desperately, desperately, desperately, trying to run away from her record, trying to hide in the

basement. And tonight the contrast was made between the incredible successes on the border, on the economy, on foreign policy under Donald Trump, as compared to the incredible failures on the border, on the economy, on foreign policy under Kamala Harris.

And that stark divide was there. I think Tim Walts tried mightily to pretend the record didn't exist,

but there were some rough moments because he couldn't deny reality. And it really goes to the

fundamental core conceit of the Kamala Harris campaign, which is she is trying to live in this alternate reality

where she is the change candidate. And Donald J. Trump is the incumbent president. And that is not,

in fact, the planet on which we live. And I think J.D. did a good job multiple times of saying,

gosh, if she has all these policy proposals, why isn't she doing any of them now?

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