The Undercard Debate: Twitter Speaks

By Amelia Hamilton Published on December 15, 2015

Tonight, the GOP hopefuls met once again to debate the issues. In the undercard debate, we saw Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham, and George Pataki take each other on. Here’s what people were tweeting about:

For some reason, the debate opened with a question about Donald Trump.

Why on earth did he open with a Trump question? #GOPDebate

— T M Freeman (@1rightwife) December 15, 2015

perhaps it’s because:

The *combined* poll average of the four candidates in the GOP undercard is 2.7% #GOPDebate

— Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) December 15, 2015

An hour in, they had really only discussed one issue, albeit an important one:

Undercard Debate, Summarized:

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— IJR (@TheIJR) December 16, 2015

It ran late but, alas, it was over.

https://twitter.com/TheBlazeNOW/status/676933069937500160

So, who won?

https://twitter.com/Mr_Fastbucks/status/676933251940904961

Undercard Scoresheet:

#1: All of them, any one of them would be infinitely better than Hillary.#GOPDebate #Hillary2016 #copolitics

— Tom (@BoreGuru) December 16, 2015

Viewers were not thrilled with the undercard debate, with many questioning if they will be held going forward.

On to the main debate!