As I said previously, Trump won’t be there and he shouldn’t be. I’m not sure when he plans to have his counter programming with Tucker but I’m sure it will be more interesting than the GOP debate.
Contrary to all you are hearing, there are only two people on that stage that have any chance of beating Trump in the primary — RDS and Vivek. Everyone else is delusional and really just auditioning for a slot on CNN or MSNBC or maybe a VP nod.
Christie will continue to be a failed politician and failed person who will explode like a caught blowfish. He has nothing. Tim Scott is not a conservative. He recently jumped on the bogus bandwagon that Florida is saying that slavery was good and he also supported Murkowski who is just another Bush neocon globalist who will support any war.
Nikki Haley is more of the same and both her and Scott are way behind Trump in their home state of South Carolina. Don’t waste your breath and Trump will never make you VP. He learned last time.
So that leaves us to the only two people that can really benefit from the debate — RDS and Vivek. I think it’s a make or break situation for RDS. He needs to defend himself against all the bogus attacks that will come but also come across as a likeable person. His lack there of has been responsible for his drop in the polls. He just comes across as a robotic automaton. He can’t respond on the fly but needs talking points. If he can actually appear to be capable of thinking on his feet then he may resuscitate his campaign.
So that leaves Vivek. He is by far the most articulate and loquacious person on the stage. He has made a point of saying he wasn’t rehearsing because wants to be spontaneous. Listen if you prepare and practice extensively for the debate you can only come across as a robot. When you get challenged outside your talking points you fold like Rubio in 2016. You can’t read off prepared statements even when they don’t respond to the question. And that’s why I think Vivek will have a breakout moment and RDS will slowly fade away. Now don’t think that means that Vivek will win the primary. He won’t and he could never win the general and even if he did he could never deliver on his promises. He just doesn’t know how impossible his plans to destroy the swamp are. I know and he couldn’t do what he says he will do in two terms. It sounds great but he has no idea how the government actually works and how impossible it would be to get the left to remove rights from federal employees. They take too much money from their unions to ever let it happen.
Anyway, I didn’t know where this was going when I started and hopefully it made some sense.