The DeSantis vs. Haley Debate Didn’t Give Us a Single Human Moment

Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis accomplished the impossible on Wednesday night: They made me miss Vivek Ramaswamy.

The hope was that a one-on-one debate between Trump’s top two opponents (to the degree either are running against Trump), absent the gadflies and hangers-on who sucked up attention during previous debates, would be a clarifying moment. Winnowing down the field would incentivize a serious policy debate, while potentially allowing one candidate to emerge as the chief rival to Donald Trump, a man who has been indicted in four separate cases.

Instead, we were treated to a semi-childish, back-and-forth debate. For two hours, Haley recited talking points and relentlessly plugged a website called DeSantisLies.com. Meanwhile, DeSantis wagged his finger in his usual condescendingly didactic way, dropping lame canned lines, including accusing Haley of “warmed-over corporatism” and caving to the “woke mob,” among other insults.

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