ALISYN CAMEROTA (HOST): Hugh, let's start with you, because sometimes it does feel different in the hall as it does from watching it. So did you think that anybody was dominant or the winner last night?
HUGH HEWITT: I gave the gold to Chris Christie, I gave the silver to Jeb Bush and I gave two bronzes out to the two senators who sparred, Rubio and Cruz. But I must say that I just saw Chris [Cuomo]'s interview with Donald Trump for the first time and the platinum goes to the [Republican] party, because when Chris got Donald Trump to double down on staying in the party in a way he did on stage -- and I was happy, I even clapped. I'm a Republican. I'm a conservative. I don't have to be objective.I'm a conservative.
CAMEROTA: [You don't have to be] Impartial. You can clap away.
CHRIS CUOMO (HOST): You asked him.
HEWITT: I asked him. Because people call my radio show, they might call Michael's. If he ran as a third party, it was over, Hillary wins. He's in the Republican Party, we have a nominee, we have a two-way race. I think we can beat her with any person on that stage. So that's how I called it for the night. And I'm so glad, Chris, you got him in the aftershow. Because that actually also helps him with rank and file Republicans who want him to be a Republican and not to do the straddle thing. So he may have got a medal out of this as well.
