Monday on The Chad Hasty Show, GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak joined Chad to talk about the Republican debate on tap for Tuesday, November 10, 2015.

About tomorrow night's debate, Mackowiak said,

I'm actually expecting a very thoughtful and substantive debate among only eight candidates on the economic issues, the fiscal issues, and I think that will be very interesting.

Speaking about the recent controversy involving Dr. Ben Carson's background and history, with some in the media questioning the candidate's truthfulness, Mackowiak said,

[Ben Carson's] campaign is gonna have to be able to answer questions about his background. If they can't do that, there's gonna be more questions, there's going to be more of a feeding frenzy. This is all happening because Carson is a new front-runner, a co-front-runner with [Donald] Trump in the national polls.

Listen to the entire interview with Matt Mackowiak in the video box above.

Be sure to join KFYO and the Lubbock Country Republican Party for the free live debate watch party Tuesday evening at Premier Cinemas in South Plains Mall. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Matt Mackowiak is a political commentator, syndicated columnist, and is the co-founder of the bipartisan political news blog Must Read Texas.

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