Twitter commentary about the ABC Republican debate.

Here’s What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About ABC’s Debate

Here’s What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About ABC’s Debate

Who's winning, who's losing, and why.
Feb. 6 2016 7:27 PM

What Twitter Pundits Have to Say About the Republican Debate

Check out the instant spin room.

Marco Rubio.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio holds a campaign town hall event at the Frank Jones Center February 4, 2016 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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With so much at stake before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, Saturday’s GOP debate is sure to provide fireworks. One of the most entertaining ways to assess which direction and in whose face those fireworks are exploding is to see what people are saying in real time on Twitter. Below are live tweets, drawn from a list of top accounts curated by Slate. Those who lean left are on the left; those who lean right are on the right. Enjoy the instant spin! And for you cord-cutters, you can also stream the debate itself in a player below the tweets.


Chris Kirk is a web developer at New York magazine and Slate’s former interactives editor. Follow him on Twitter.

Jeremy Stahl is a Slate senior editor. You can follow him on Twitter.