Naima Troutt

I actually did not hate CJ.

Yeah, no.

I think in the beginning he was pissing me off.

But then towards the end, he started to make some points that I had some respect for.

I think the part that messed me up was in the beginning.

He was like, people who are food insecure just need to work harder.

And I was like, well, that's not very compassionate now.

It's kind of hard to work hard when you're starving.

Towards the end, I appreciated when he was like, there are issues with the Republican health care plan because we can't just get rid of a premium tax credit without replacing it with a real solid plan, which I appreciated him being able to actually acknowledge that the Republicans do need to form a better, more thoughtful and understood plan.

I mean, it's just in the sense that it's a very...

Like, the prep work that you do for a debate is hours and hours and hours.

And then the debate itself, you have to talk to people who, under any other circumstances, you would never want to talk to.

Right.

So it gets to be somewhat fatiguing, like, back to back to back to back.

And it's also not, like, the most sustainable, like, way to, I feel like, have an online presence because you have to travel.

Like, you just went, like, across the country to do a debate.

Holy crap.

Yeah, I think that the climate of these debates, it's not a debate.

It's really an argument.

Kind of.