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Rating the GOP candidates in Iowa

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Posted By: Moritz55, 7/16/2023 11:05:17 AM

Six Republican presidential candidates — Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis — appeared Friday at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa. The event was sponsored by the Family Leader, the most influential social conservative organization in the state. The candidates were questioned by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. While the event did not make big news like it did back in 2016, when then-candidate Donald Trump notoriously said of the late Sen. John McCain, "I like people who weren't captured," the forum still offered revealing portraits of some of the candidates vying to unseat

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Reply 1 - Posted by: philsner 7/16/2023 12:01:44 PM (No. 1513933)
Forget it Byron. Everyone knows you suffer from TDS.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Sanchin 7/16/2023 12:05:40 PM (No. 1513937)
No rating of candidates simply a weak recap. If this field of Republicans is the Best the GOP has to offer to counter President Trump and the democrats then it speaks volumes as to how impotent the Republican Party has become and quite frankly a true revelation as to the quality of a person that runs for office.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 7/16/2023 12:23:36 PM (No. 1513946)
No match for Trump. So comparing to Democrats does not arise.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: itsonlyme 7/16/2023 12:46:13 PM (No. 1513958)
Chris "Cholesterol" Christie is probably munching of bacon greased doughnuts while counting campaign contributions from MSNBC "viewers".
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Reply 5 - Posted by: fysammy 7/16/2023 1:05:21 PM (No. 1513969)
Sorry, I thought DeSantis was strong, informed and cogent. Too bad we cannot cut to the chase and have a series of Trump/DeSantis debates on separate issues.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 7/16/2023 1:23:06 PM (No. 1513976)
Byron, aren't you a little early with this?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: doublesharp 7/16/2023 1:25:03 PM (No. 1513978)
#5 cocaine is a helluva drug
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Reply 8 - Posted by: TXknitter 7/16/2023 4:08:26 PM (No. 1514091)
Sorry Byron. You are shilling for DC status quo and we have been onto your game for a long time. I agree with Clarice Feldman’s spot-on analysis of this excellent event. She said these interviews by the razor-sharp, no party nonsense Tucker Carlson was far far better than the wimpy debate system. I thought every minute of these interviews was more insightful than the theatrical, scripted “debates” that the RNC presents to us every four years. They serve as moneymakers for the networks and party prop-ups to keep us distracted.
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