Good God, what a circus! If I were a GOP voter, I would be embarrassed.
Trump dominated this one, for better or worse, from start to finish. He obviously has concluded that his supporters reward him for being outrageous. If he missed insulting someone with strong ties to the South Carolina GOP establishment, it was obviously an oversight. It doesn’t appear that there are any lines that he won’t cross.
I have no idea how this played to the South Carolina electorate. If he wins the primary, it is very difficult to see how he doesn’t sweep to the nomination.
Most of what he said about Iraq was true.
Jeb’s donors must have been putting pressure on him to be extremely aggressive. I’m not sure how that played with the public, either. Since Marco didn’t say anything memorable, Jeb might have regained his footing as the establishment frontrunner. We’ll know at this time next week.