Just for the sake of learning the temperature of the debate nationally, I wish there were a Democratic primary in which “minor transgender” issues were being actively debated.
Ramaswamy is really leaning into the persona he’s created for this campaign.
Chris Christie giving a fine and overdue ode to the honor and patriotism of John Ashcroft.
Vivek’s upped his rhetoric attack on Haley’s corruption to completely unsustainable extremes: “She will send your children to die to buy a bigger house,” made me cringe. Passionate foreign policy debate is needed, but that’s not it.
It must be understood that Vivek Ramaswamy’s repeated “Nikki Haley is corrupt” attack is so wholly personalized due to the abuse she ladled out on him over the last three debates.
It doesn’t make him look any better. It makes him look like a high-schooler whose affection just got embarrassingly rejected in the lunchroom cafeteria. And Haley was brutal when asked if she wanted to respond: “No.”
The RNC injected Tom Fitton into this debate for some reason.
Ramaswamy alleges that Nikki Haley will “send your kids to die so that she can buy a bigger house.”
Ramaswamy arguing that Haley as a fellow Indian should be able to pronounce his name correctly is extremely ethnic inside baseball.
Haley consistently said that South Carolina did not need a bathroom bill- both when she was governor and when she was asked about new versions of it later in 2019.
A big subtext of the back and forth between DeSantis and Haley on transgender bathroom laws comes down to the fact that Haley was a governor from 2011-17, while DeSantis came to office much more recently and had been working in the current environment.