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 JD 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 Waltz 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

JD did a good job of prosecuting Kamala Harris's actual record. She is desperately, 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 and that stark divide was there. I think Tim

Waltz tried mightily to pretend the record didn't exist but but but there there were

some rough moments because he couldn't didn'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

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