
The Best #GOPDebate Tweets
Did you watch tonight's GOP debate on Fox Business Network?
The candidates engaged in fiery exchanges about everything from taxes, economic growth to trade and foreign policy and bank bailouts.
Aside from the debate itself, Twitter was overflowing with witty commentary and yes, GIFs.
So whether you followed the hashtag #GOPDebate, waited for Democratic candidates -- Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley -- to challenge the Republican candidates or just wanted to read entertaining commentary, TheStreet recaps the Twitter action.
So who do you think won tonight?
But if you had to call a winner.....
Even the debate losers may not be so obvious.
And it wasn't ...
When the debate moved to foreign policy, Syria and Iraq, particularly, there was one question on our minds:
Oh wait, he spoke!
So Cruz doesn't plan to bail out Bank of America if it was in trouble? Hope he's okay losing the vote of every single Bank of America customer.
Fact check for Ted Cruz:
Silicon Valley spoke during the debate:
Can we get back to discussing the economy? Wasn't that supposed to be the focus of this #GOPdebate? Jobs? Growth? Innovation? Startups?
- Steve Case (@SteveCase)
Meanwhile.... That time when Ben Carson's foreign policy experience came under fire.
And again...
Did Ted Cruz have a Rick Perry moment?
The political press really crucified him for slipping up.
Right out of the gate, the first question moderators asked candidates was about whether the minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour.
Ben Carson just said he wouldn't raise minimum wage. Say what?
Hillary Clinton had a lot to say during the GOP debate:
And former Gov. Martin O'Malley, too:
Here's a little perspective on Carly Fiorina.
Celebrities were sure to give their two cents on the GOP debate.
Seth MacFarlane wasted no time jabbing the candidates.
The undercard debate is over and here's what one of the world's most famous CEOs had to say:
Before the debate, Gov. Jeb Bush clearly wasn't worried about the candidates in the undercard debate. Here's how he prepared for the primetime debate:
Remember Herman Cain?
During the undercard devate, political journalists began weighing in immediately, including this local reporter from a New Jersey-based publication:
The undercard debate definitely had a different feel to it tonight.
We agree Mr. Mark.
And this one from The Washington Post:
Even though Trump wasn't on stage during the undercard debate, it was clear that Trump was truly everywhere.
And not surprisingly, there were a jabs at the Democrats:
Even celebrities had something to say:
Arsenio Hall wonders who's watching the debate tonight and whether Carson has a hammer behind his podium. (He might, according to our calculations.)
Taking a page from Donald Trump (who lashed out at Starbucks and suggested people boycott the coffee chain for not having very Christmas-like coffee cups for the holiday season), writer and producer Michael Hitchcock wondered:
Too bad Trump will actually be debating, we would love to hear what he has to say ... about the Republican Debate not his views on Christmas.








