{"id":12626,"date":"2023-12-07T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/who-were-the-winners-and-losers-in-the-fourth-republican-presidential-debate-pundits-name-their-picks\/"},"modified":"2023-12-07T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:01:20","slug":"who-were-the-winners-and-losers-in-the-fourth-republican-presidential-debate-pundits-name-their-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/who-were-the-winners-and-losers-in-the-fourth-republican-presidential-debate-pundits-name-their-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Who were the winners and losers in the fourth Republican presidential debate? Pundits name their picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Political pundits and other media figures took to social media Wednesday night to declare which Republican presidential candidate they thought won the fourth GOP presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Opinions were naturally split between Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley after they repeatedly clashed in heated exchanges throughout the debate, which was held on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Vivek won the debate and it wasn\u2019t even close,\u2019 journalist Cassandra MacDonald wrote, while talk radio host Dom Giordano said the debate was \u2018clearly won\u2019 by DeSantis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Radio host Dana Loesch agreed with Giordano, declaring, \u2018DeSantis has won two debates two weeks in a row now. His biggest asset is his record.\u2019 The previous debate she referenced was the one between DeSantis and Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom hosted by Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity last week.<\/p>\n<p>Columnist David Marcus declared Christie the winner, while Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck praised DeSantis by pointing to a specific exchange he had with Haley about the threat from China.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018[DeSantis] wasn\u2019t rattled and clearly won this exchange. To argue he\u2019s not tough on China when he\u2019s been saying for years the Chinese Communist Party is America\u2019s biggest threat is ludicrous. Also, anytime you brag about having Wall Street donors is MAJOR cringe,\u2019 Houck wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Others declared one candidate the winner who chose not to attend the debate: Former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>X Strategies CEO Alex Bruesewitz wrote that Trump won, Ramaswamy came in second, and DeSantis and Haley tied for third, while former Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder posted a flattering drawing of Trump with the question, \u2018The winner?\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018Trump won this debate,\u2019 Rep. Anthony Sabatini, R-Fla, simply wrote, as Fox News contributor Leo Terrell agreed, \u2018President Trump won the debate!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Republican Caucuses will be held on Jan. 15, 2024, and will be followed by the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political pundits and other media figures took to social media Wednesday night to declare which Republican presidential candidate they thought won the fourth GOP presidential debate. Opinions were naturally split between Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley after they repeatedly clashed in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}