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brooklynite

(94,483 posts)
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:48 PM Oct 2015

Four Republicans Battle For Attention At Undercard Debate

Source: NPR

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former New York Gov. George Pataki and South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham may have been the warm-up act for the main GOP debate Wednesday night, but they all tried to make the best of it.

Jindal tried to hammer home that he's the most conservative, touting his credentials as governor — but he also had to repeatedly defend his economic record that even some home-state Republicans have criticized.

Santorum talked up his blue collar appeal and his ideas to increase manufacturing in the country. Pataki tried to stake out the center, embracing climate change and working across the aisle.

And Graham was by far the most amusing of the evening, with multiple zingers and laugh lines, trying to show that he would be the best commander-in-chief and the best to protect national security.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/28/452647820/live-blog-four-republicans-battle-for-attention-at-undercard-debate

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Four Republicans Battle For Attention At Undercard Debate (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2015 OP
i didnt watch restorefreedom Oct 2015 #1
The undercard isn't that like trying to be at the adult table. Historic NY Oct 2015 #2
It's the ''Nobody Gives a Shit" Debate. That's what undercard means. It discredits the ''kids table" YOHABLO Oct 2015 #3

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
1. i didnt watch
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:13 PM
Oct 2015

but it must have been sad.

there should not have been a kids table debate. thrown them all in there

 

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)
3. It's the ''Nobody Gives a Shit" Debate. That's what undercard means. It discredits the ''kids table"
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 11:38 PM
Oct 2015
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