Five Big Questions After the Harshest G.O.P. Debate Yet
Voters haven’t flocked to him because they’re deeply familiar with, or woefully ignorant about, his political history. They’re responding to him in a larger and more visceral way: as the megaphone for their disgust with the status quo and frustration with America’s trajectory. They thrill to his braggadocio, and he gave them more of it on Saturday night. They look to him precisely for bad behavior. On this front, too, he didn’t disappoint.
.. Rubio lined up with him: “I thank God all the time it was George W. Bush in the White House on 9/11 and not Al Gore.”