The event, which was billed as a chance for Donald Trump’s rivals to change their fortunes, only reinforced the confusion and aimlessness of their candidacies.
It took about a half hour for the Republican Presidential debate on Wednesday night to descend from merely being very boring to unrecoverable chaos. Tim Scott, the U.S. senator from South Carolina, asked Vivek Ramaswamy, the founder of a biotech company, how he could accuse his rivals of being “bought and paid for” when he himself was “just in business with the Chinese Communist Party and the same people who funded Hunter Biden.
This was the “thank you for speaking while I’m interrupting” debate, the event at which the confusion and aimlessness of the Republicans challenging Trump for the Presidential nomination became apparent to all. Trump, far ahead in every poll, had opted out of the event, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in Simi Valley, California, a venue whose leadership he has sometimeswith.
That was the level. At one point Ramaswamy responded to a question about parents’ rights by saying transgenderism was a mental illness. “I’ve been sleeping with a teacher for thirty-eight years,” Mike Pence said, referring to his wife, Karen, who used to teach art at a private Christian school in Virginia. “Full disclosure.” Forced to pick a winner, I might go for Nikki Haley, largely because she looked appropriately disgusted with everything going on around her.
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