Wouldn’t matter who sponsored or ran the debate, this was never going to be more than the also rans rearranging the deckchairs on their failing campaigns.
Trump is the nominee, he was the nominee as of Jan 7, 2021... as long as he chose to run... He did... The rest of this is theater.
Anyone thinking that a “debate” among people who combined are fighting for what will likely be no more than 30-35% of the primary vote, and likely less when its all said and done, was going to matter?
Their attempts to astroturf Desantis as an alternative have failed, the further attempts to push others will fail. This was basically the establishments circle jerk firing squad in all its glory tonight.
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