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Tim Scott, 2d hardest hit

Fox’s Adam Sharp initially suggests that heavy tweeting about Rubio is good news for him. @BretBaier, to his credit, corrects him.

Is that hinge-like creaking sound you hear the allegiance of donors/Fox/K Street shifting from goldenboy Marco 2 the man from the past (Jeb)

If you say so! Apologies. Assumed was canned because you were talking about an old issue (mosque visit) & not debate twitter.com/greggutfeld/st…

So I turn to @FoxNews to see how they’ll handle the Marcodammerrung & they’re just playing somber classical music #actuallycannedGutfeldshow

Really? @abcnews shows Rubio’s family in the audience? Do all candidates get that or only MSM favorites? Had to be preplanned.

Immigration #1 search topic even though it didn’t come up that much–@jonkarl

Trump now seems like the calm one.

Martha Raddatz going to run out the clock on this sucker? …

Donald Trump’s Immigration Message May Resound in New Hampshire nyti.ms/1UQ7BvK

Right to Rise anti-Rubio ad (that’s running mid-debate) now resonating in light of his performance.

Cruz humanized (via his drug abuse story) is alarmingly powerful. Don’t let him do this again.

Half this debate seems to be Martha Raddatz asking “Would you bomb this? … How about that? … Don’t you want to bomb at least *that*?

Jeb: Lesson of history: We shouldn’t bomb something & not leave stable government behind. Who’d do that? What history cld he have in mind?

So far the debate is not a total disaster for Rubio. But it’s *close* …

Answer is clearly yes. twitter.com/jimantle/statu…

And what’s “working”? … twitter.com/jimantle/statu…

Rubio’s only objection to his Gang of 8 bill was that it didn’t pass?

So far, Frank Luntz’s focus group has its work cut out for it.

Is this the first crowd that isn’t stacked for Rubio? Or was his 3d recitation of same stump paragraph too much for even them?

Rubio responds to charge that he can only give stump speech by retreating to stump speech.

Insiders telling me that Trump’s NH numbers are holding up (this is pre-debate, which is going on now).

Martin memo has details on how Rubio got hosed on issue of “merit” legal immig vs. “chain” [relatives] migration

Hadn’t realize the extent to which Rubio’s Gang of 8 bill was *worse* than earlier McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill