The Trump Debate

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Tonight is fight night and it could be the first inflection point we’ve seen in the race since June, when Donald Trump began his rise. In 2012 not every debate mattered, but the ones that did mattered a lot: Gingrich’s rise came through the debates and Perry’s collapse began not with his memory flub, but with his “you don’t have a heart” immigration line.

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