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Who will win tonight's debate?
Donald Trump
Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
John Kasich
Baby Hitler
Megyn Kelly
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SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

SpiderHyphenMan posted:


Has won three whole states.

Four :ssh:

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SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Youth Decay posted:

They forgot to filter the audience, whoopsies

Fox News did not react favourably to the Romney speech.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Joementum posted:

Kasich confirming the contested convention strategy :kheldragar:

Romney called for all candidates to aim for a contested convention earlier, and Kasich immediately supported it.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Rubio will have to start attacking Kasich soon.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Jewel Repetition posted:

So am I biased and inattentive or is Trump doing really well this time around?

I just wanted to post that this is his best debate so far.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Cronodoculous posted:

Cruz going for the "I don't think you're a tough guy." approach when the "My opponent just advocated committing war crimes." approach is right in front of him. It's just sitting there! Come on!

Phelddagrif posted:

Correct Cruz response: "Donald Trump is admitting he would be a war criminal as President."

Wrong party.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Montasque posted:

So far...

1. Trump
2. Kasich
3. Rubio
4. Cruz

Cruz is dying here... DYING.

Yup. Halfway through and nobody but Trump and Kasich even made a blip.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Mitt Romney posted:

They aren't asking the not-Trumps for any specifics

This is to Trump's advantage though. Rubio and Cruz currently have zero replayable moments in this debate. If this continues, the verdict will be "it's over."

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Millstone posted:

ah gently caress he's falling apart

No.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

The Pussy Boss posted:

feels like most of this debate is everyone else talking about donald trump.

Nono, the race is wide open.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Joementum posted:

Just amazing how effortlessly he lies. "I never settle" is obviously false, but nobody cares.

I know he's lying, and I almost believe him.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Jerusalem posted:

Rubio completely hosed up the segue into Trump University. He should have played up the fact that Trump's lines about how he was going to run the University being identical to his lines about how he was going to run the country.

Yes yes, good job.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
He collapsed a lot harder when Rubio attacked him in the last debate, and that seemed to have very little effect. This is just a weaker rerun of that collapse.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Malachy posted:

If this crowd was actually from Detroit Rubio would have been booed of the stage for defending Snyder

95% of the tickets were given to the Detroit GOP.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Puppy Galaxy posted:

Did Kaisich just totally reverse his stance?

Yes.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Rubio might lose his voice live on stage.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Soothing Vapors posted:

goddamn the Republican party is a trainwreck

No, this is the strongest field in 40 years.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Oiled and Ready posted:

Got that one on the break from a handler, talk about loving staircase wit

Yeah, Ted did the "breathe" thing earlier and Rubio's writers' room came up with a hot take.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Bad Caller posted:

Okay so when Trump said "get the military what they need, not the bloated defense contracts"

that was code words for "cut military spending" in republican terms, yeah?

because some of the poo poo trump says sounds incredibly leftist inbetween the crazy stuff

does he just throw everything at the wall and sees what sticks

The correct term is "populism".

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Mr. Nemo posted:

drat,is he really that sure he is getting the nomination?

He put Roger Stone in charge of coordinating a brokered convention. He has every right to be sure.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
This ended well for Trump. The moderators were unwilling to pursue his numerous weak points to the end. If they'd kept attacking him, he might have been hurt.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Deadulus posted:

If this debate doesn't hurt him, then I don't know what the Republicans can do to stop him.

The last debate was really far worse of him. It jumpstarted a big "Trump is ridiculous and dangerous" narrative, and he somehow managed to smother that with the Christie announcement.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
The Trump-O'Reilly relationship seems fascinating.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Rubio will suffer after tonight. He looked like a waterlogged corpse, his voice was worse than Hillary's, and he couldn't say a single quoteworthy thing apart from "I would support Donald as the nominee."

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Rubio calls Trump "very charming" and "funny".

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Blasmeister posted:

How quickly we forget yoga

Indeed, took me barely an hour.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Mr. Nemo posted:

Don't you get it? He CANT run independent now, he is on video saying he won't do so. That's legally binding.

The first filing deadlines end on May 9th. If Trump wants to mount a credible independent run, he needs to register as an independent candidate long before the convention. How likely do you think that is?

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Blasmeister posted:

Right but a pledge won't stop Trump from running 3rd party because he can and will just claim that he was going to honour the pledge but X happened. So bringing it up at all just limits the other 3 candidates, who are actually expected to not just ignore their promises, if some insanity 3rd party GOPe Romneygeddon happens.

Do you think Trump is going to file as an Independent by May 9th?

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Confirms my previously baseless prediction that Rubio is hosed. Especially since Luntz is regularly accused of massaging his numbers in Marco's favour.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

Blasmeister posted:

When's the libertarian party's convention? that's his latest date. He should know if it's going to be a contested convention by then.

May 26th.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Cruz: "Donald is going to lose to Hillary because he holds the exact same positions as her."

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Cruz is now steadfastly, constantly, against relentless pressure by OR, absolutely refusing to say that Trump is lying about anything. His line is "Trump can genuinely believe two opposite things within one minute." That seems like Cruz is folding.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

unstumped

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
There you go again...

https://twitter.com/Trump2016Donald/status/705598182470852608

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Bernie Goldberg spends 10 minutes on FN trashing Trump, says Rubio did extremely well at the debate, then ends by saying that Rubio can't win Florida and Trump will run away with it.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

TyrantWD posted:

You can't be a Trump-like candidate if you need donors to prop you up, so the Trump movement will likely have very few imitators.

Isn't Bloomberg supposed to announce this week?

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

ReidRansom posted:

This really is the best goddamn primary until the next one

The 2020 primary is just going to be Webb vs. Chafee.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

paranoid randroid posted:

so i turned this off round about the time Megyn Kelly was straddling Trumps prone form and just stabbing and screaming and stabbing and stabbing, did he manage to rally

Luntz's focus group rated the performances Kasich>>>>>Cruz>>>Trump>Rubio. I think that last bit is important.

SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer
Chris Matthews: "If you want to know what Joe McCarthy was like in the 1950s, watch Ted Cruz."

High praise indeed.

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SNAKES N CAKES
Sep 6, 2005

DAVID GAIDER
Lead Writer

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