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CNN and MSNBC pundits had no shortage of hot takes following Thursday’s CNN Republican Presidential Debate and among the noticeable talk points was the belief that the spirited debate in Houston caused a “long-term injury” to the party as the five remaining candidates “looked like a bunch of third graders arguing over the monkey bars on the playground.”
On CNN’s AC360 Post-Debate Special, CNN host and political commentator Michael Smerconish invoked former boss and President George H.W. Bush to lament that, unlike Bush, the behavior of the candidates was reminiscent of “an s-show in many respects and I worry about for the Republican Party the long-term injury that they’ve done to their brand.”