CNN Undercard Republican Debate: Live Coverage

Dan McLaughlin pointed out on Twitter that Graham is the only candidate in this undercard debate to win an election since 2002. That, of course, is a sign of their political stagnation. Let me just add that Graham won just 56 percent in the 2014 South Carolina Republican primary for Senate, which is quite weak for an incumbent senator.

The studies that Rick Santorum cited to defend reversing the policy that integrates women into elite combat units included one that found that 85 percent of those surveyed in U.S. Special Operations Command opposed letting women into their jobs — for reasons including, but not limited to, “I think PMS is terrible, possibly the worst. I cannot stand my wife for about a week out of the month for every month. I like that I can come to work and not have to deal with that.”

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