Mike Huckabee says he’s the only person on stage who’s ever dealt with this question. “I believe there is a place for a death penalty. Some crimes are so heinous, so horrible…” You can guess the rest. But wait for it! Huckabee then says abortion is worse than the death penalty, because there’s been no trial to convict the fetus of a crime.

This is turning into a holier-than-thou fight about Christianity, as a YouTube questioner holds up the Bible and says “Do you believe in this book?” Giuliani responds that he does, but doesn’t interpret the book literally. Huckabee cracks, “Do you need help with that question, Mayor?”

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.