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Ralph Norman

1 scored debate

27 challenges faced · 3,968 words scored

Debate integrity · one scored debate

Not a career average: Steelmanned has scored Ralph once, against Darline Graham.

Where these scores sit

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Ralph: 73 (v Darline Graham) · shaded to our ±5–8 re-run band · all 46 scored performances shown

Inside our ±8-point re-run band of this record: Dave Smith's 74, Rabbi David Wolpe's 75, Will Chamberlain's 71, Dinesh D'Souza's 76. We treat these as indistinguishable from it.

Component standings

Confronted the point75site 52–97

Argued clean96site 6–100

Dealt straight1site 0–87

Let them talk100site 75–100

Ralph's strongest component is “Let them talk” at 100. Across the 46 scored performances Steelmanned has published, that component runs 75–100: the highest we have recorded on that component.

The record

SCETV NewsStructured debate0h 59m

U.S. Senate Special Republican Primary Runoff Debate - Ralph Norman vs Darline Graham

Ralph Norman

DIS ±8

Opposite Darline Graham · their score 55

CRUX45% · N=27

CLEAN30% · 3,968W

DEALT15% · N=27

TALK10% · 33 TURNS

100

Confronted cost and access cruxes with concrete mechanisms ("you expand HSA accounts", shopping policies "across state lines") and defined a win as "I'm not for endless wars. You win them and you get out."; given the floor on the $600,000 COVID-money charge, spoke about COVID being man-made and the WHO, addressing neither allegation; no fallacies or interruptions recorded.

27 challenges faced · 3,968 words scored · rubric v0.12