Who won the first Republican debate?

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ramaswamy dominated, DeSantis dodged, Christie attacked the wrong guy—and Trump and Tucker Carlson talked about Jeffrey Epstein. Tommy and Dan recap the lowest lows of the first Republican debate, and Republican strategist Sarah Longwell joins to explain whether any of this matters to real-life voters.

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0:00.0	Music
0:20.0	Welcome to Pottape America, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:21.8	I'm Dan Pfeiffer.
0:22.6	And we will never get those two hours of our lives back then.
0:26.0	We just watched the Republican primary debate, the kids' table debate, the consolation bracket,
0:31.4	the consolation prize debate.
0:32.8	It was a doozy, but we'll tell you about all of it.
0:35.0	We also watched most of Donald Trump's insane interview with Tucker Carlson on X, which
0:41.9	is Twitter now.
0:42.9	Do we say that?
0:43.9	No, we don't.
0:44.9	I say Twitter.
0:45.9	I don't say that either.
0:46.9	I don't say any of these things.
0:47.9	And then, because we know that our opinions or our gut instincts about what Republicans
0:53.8	want are not always attuned to where the MAGA base is, we bring in Sarah Longwell, who
0:58.9	has done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of focus groups with Trump voters to help us
1:03.9	understand what tonight, if anything, might have changed the dynamics of this race.
1:08.3	Did you get the sense that we did not fully understand the Republican base when Pottape
1:12.0	America guest Chris Christie was ruthlessly boot off stage?
1:15.0	Yeah, I don't like people chasing it with pitchforks, and I was like, I like that guy.
1:20.2	I don't know how to do it.
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