Three debate moments people are talking about that have nothing to do with Donald Trump
Donald Trump certainly knows how to spark a conversation. Indeed, two of the top-Tweeted moments from Thursday’s debate were about him. But the lesser-known candidates generated plenty of commentary themselves. Here’s what the Internet was talking about:
Rand Paul declined to join the so-called undercard debate. Instead, he opted to hold his own town hall on Twitter.
Though he was gone from the stage, his name didn’t go unsaid.
“We want Rand!” rang through the crowd midway through the main debate. Simultaneously, #RandRally popped up on Twitter.
Graham may no longer be running for president, but he hasn’t been forgotten. Graham, the home-state senator in front of the South Carolina crowd, was a delight in earlier undercard debates, bringing to bear a lighthearted wit that belied his dark outlook on national security.
On Thursday night, he was in the audience for the debate, and the cameras panned to him, causing some to pine for his presence on the debate stage again:
A reminder: The candidates have the same plan to fight Islamic State as Obama does
We noted this back in November, and no Republican presidential hopeful has laid out a significantly different strategy since.