Republican Undercard Debate: Live Coverage

Harry and Jody: Agreed that Christie is doing well on this stage. He has more elbow-room in the undercard debate than he did on the main stage. And with Trump not around, he’s decisively won the “who’s got the big personality” contest of the night. (Co-sign re: his constant refs to Clinton.) So: Will he end up back on the big stage? The next GOP debate isn’t until Dec 15.

If Jindal seemed to be shilly-shallying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, saying that he needed to read it before he made up his mind, he had good reason to soft-pedal. Republicans have mixed feelings, with a plurality (43 percent) saying that the deal is good for the U.S., 34 percent saying it’s bad, and 16 percent in Jindal’s camp, saying they don’t know.

Chris Christie isn’t the only candidate to call for cyber-warfare against China. In my recent piece on hacks and Social Security numbers, near the end, I references Mike Huckabee’s vehement call for reciprocal cyber-war.