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On trump. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. The debate will be hosted by bret baier and Martha Maccallum. I spoke to the anchor of the story from new york. Martha maccallum, welcome. Hi, howie, good to be with you. Howie i havent seen a build up like this for a first debate at the beginning of a campaign since that 2015 Fox Debate With Political Newcomer donald trump. I turned to the other channels i see fox debate. What are people saying . Why do you think that is . I think theres a lot of enthusiasm. I think people are much more politically engaged and probably since that 2015 debate and i think that people see this as , you know, entertainment that is very eye opening in terms of whats going on in the political world, so i think its a huge opportunity for these candidates on this stage and we see it acrosstheboard that people are just more intere ....
Compared him in that column a little bit to mayor pete and mayor pete shouldn t have run for president but he s a very talented guy in many ways very well-spoken and never got corner ed on anything and vivek is the same way. no ones attacked him, trump certainly hasn t attacked him. the other candidates ignored him but beginning to eat into the vote of other candidates especially desantis so that s why you had that debate pointer in there. howie: you know if he is having his moment and starts to get more media scrutiny people start to look at some of his positions like raising the voting age to 25 and not a big supporter of aid to ukraines but maria i ll say one thing for vivek ramaswamy. he s done a lot of media interviews, he didn t have much choice but that s how he has moved up in the polls. he has, and that s sort of where he s like mayor pete but i also think he s like the andrew yang of this years republican primary class. he comes from business, a very ....