Nikki Haley: She should pay Vivek Ramaswamy for being on stage. Without him, she’d turn to dust and blow away. With him, she looks reasonable. If there wasn’t an establishment lane, she’d be hurting. She got hurt during the debate on China, too. The @DeSantisWarRoom lit her up on China on Twitter during the debate. Check out this thread for more.

NBC moderators: Lester Holt did a nice job of preventing the candidates from talking over each other. Hugh Hewitt asked some thoughtful foreign policy questions (to nobody’s surprise). Kristen Welker was the lefty on the panel but her questions were reasonable enough.

Ron DeSantis: Tonight was the night that Gov. DeSantis put it all together. He hit Trump with effective jabs. Gov. DeSantis said Trump “should explain why he racked up so much debt. He should explain why he didn’t drain the Swamp and he said Republicans would get tired of winning. Well, we saw last night. Well, I’m sick of losing.”

[As I wrote earlier, DeSantis gave a good answer on the first question, later brought up Trump tangentially in another, but largely ignored him the rest of the night. He was still the candidate who did best to respond on Trump. I’m not sure I agree with my pal Gary on Haley, whose attack-dog schtick is starting to wear thin. It looks more like an audition to be Trump’s running mate to me, but YMMV. I’d still be happy if she won the nomination for president, or if DeSantis did, or even Tim Scott, although his limitations as a campaigner are not improving as this process goes along. — Ed]