Candidates vied for second place, posing little threat to Trump’s dominance among GOP primary voters.
Ramaswamy’s awfulness continued unabated. Whenever he got the chance, he interrupted. He talked loudly and he talked nonstop. No matter that he was spouting nonsense, it was nonsense that at least a part of the GOP base always laps up.
Speaking of a pale imitation, how about DeSantis? The Florida governor, who was marketed six months ago as the rising star of a conservative post-Trump firmament, both showed himself unable to grab the spotlight — half the time, he seemed simply an afterthought, the man who had been given the central podium on the platform, yet was unable to in any way dominate the conversation — and to also be a truly lousy public speaker.
Given the dominance of Trump stories in the news at the moment, it’s hard to see how this debate will have moved the needle very far for any of the other candidates. It was, to be sure, a missed opportunity for DeSantis, and an exercise in pure frustration for the anti-Trumpists on the platform. As for Ramaswamy, my guess is that the part of the GOP base who groove and grok on outrage have already chosen their version of utterly banal and dishonest — and that version is Donald J. Trump.
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