Tucker Carlson Interviews Donald Trump [247.1M Views] While the GOP 8 Bores

There wasn’t much to learn from last night’s GOP debate. The questions didn’t seem that good – they were general.

There was an interesting moment when Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy battled over Trump.

No one asked Mike Pence about Donald Trump’s post-election reaction. That was surprising.

Pence tried to look strong and tough, but it didn’t work. Christie was petty and vengeful. Haley was warmongering self, as was Pence. She is bright and did a good job as UN Ambassador.

I like Tim Scott. He could be a running mate. I don’t think Donald Trump will pick Vivek Ramaswamy, do you?

DeSantis had good answers to a number of questions, and he’s a good governor, but he probably didn’t connect with people. He’s a bit stiff. Governor DeSantis has potential. There’s still time.

No one came out of that as real competition for Donald Trump. He won without even being there.

Christie is just there to get the hate Trump crowd. I don’t see Ramaswamy going anywhere, although he’s likable and bright.

The moderators and their questions were partly responsible for the lackluster performances. The questions really didn’t touch upon specifics.

They never discussed the efforts to criminalize Donald Trump.

OBSERVATIONS DURING THE DEBATE

The audience at the GOP debate was cheering, yelling, and clapping throughout. The GOP 8 are all Emperors without Clothing. They don’t seem like they are right for the times – not tough enough or aware enough.

There are too many of them on the stage, and they’re all on the same page. Asa Hutchinson and Mike Pence need the hook.

The first question and the introductions focused on spending, the economy, and energy. The answers were general and predictable.

The second question was on climate change. Vivek called climate change a hoax. Christie started blasting him because Christie is the faux Republican on the stage.  Vivek told Christie to hug him like he did President Obama.

Nikki went to the woman thing. You need a woman to get things done, blah, blah, blah. She wants to tell China to lower its emissions. Sure, that’ll work. She said the subsidies are not working, and that’s true.

Tim Scott talked about poverty. Scott wants to bring manufacturing back to America.

Like previous debates, it looks and sounds scripted.

The country is being destroyed, and our Constitution is degraded. They didn’t hit the mark.

The GOP 8 returned after the commercial and talked about abortions. Did I mention that Pence should get the hook?

The debate is no different from any other, even though Democrats are about to make the USA a one-party socialist state.

Doug Burgum, who no one knows anything about outside North Dakota, talked about putting the Feds back into their place and returning power to the states.

The focus on abortion seems to be a mistake. It’s out of the Constitution, and we have it back where it belongs – with the states, but Republicans and Democrats like to focus on it and use it as a wedge issue.

Vivek said Donald Trump was the best president of the 21st century and told Christie he’d do better not focusing his entire campaign on vengeance and grievance against one man. He said we’re skating on thin ice in this country, and we cannot set a precedent where the political party in power uses police force to indict its opponents in a brawl.

Christie was booed when he tried to retaliate against Vivek. He’s cooked. Baier chastised the audience as they booed. Christie told Vivek that he hadn’t done anything for the country and started bashing Trump for allegedly saying we could suspend the Consitution. He must have DJT confused with Joe Biden.

Bill O’Reilly said, “First half hour, I learned little. But I would hire @VivekGRamaswamy to host The Today Show.”

Tim Scott wants to fire Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray.

Fox didn’t spend much time on Ron DeSantis, and Baier kept telling him he’s not answering the question.

Pence bashed Putin and said he wants to take over the world. Vivek, who has the whitest teeth I’ve ever seen, said China is the problem. He wants us to promise not to put NATO in Ukraine, which irked Pence.

Pence rattled off the Bushisms like, “We have peace through strength.” He thinks agreeing not to put NATO in Ukraine means China will take over Taiwan.

Haley simplistically bashed Putin and is happy to keep spending on Ukraine – still nothing about the border invasion of the United States more than halfway through.

Haley said Putin murdered Prigozhin, and she doesn’t know that.

The Republicans are still talking about failed policies, and the audience cheers for the Ukraine war because they don’t know that Ukraine is losing, and they don’t know that there is a lot more to that invasion. They cheered when Haley claimed we’re preventing World War by fighting Putin.

DeSantis said we need to defend our own border, and he won’t send troops to Ukraine, but he will send them to the border.

An hour-and-a-half in, Doug Burgum talked a little about the border.Tim Scott addressed the border.

Fox looked like they’re desperately looking for a new candidate to take on Donald Trump.

Of the eight, DeSantis is the only one who seemed possible, but Trump won.

I said they need to get the hook for Pence and Hutchinson, but I should have included Christie and Haley.

If you are watching, could you tell us what you think? Maybe I’m wrong, but I think the GOP 8 are out of touch.