‘Hot Debate Guy’ Is The Internet’s New Left Shark

Signs your presidential debate may not be going well: Everyone watching at home becomes fascinated with a studio audience member sitting just behind the moderator.

That’s definitely a thing that happened last night during the second presidential debate. Twitter lit up with questions about the young man just over CNN host Jake Tapper’s right shoulder. He’s becoming the next photogenic phenomenon.

Most opinions lean toward this dude giving off a Wes Bentley vibe.

Esquire magazine thought he resembled that botched Tom Brady court sketch.

But I’m not entirely convinced it’s not Mets third baseman David Wright.

David Wright usually smiles a lot more, though. Maybe this is why the Mets have lost two games in a row to the Miami Marlins — they’ve replaced Wright with a ghostie player while he attends Republican debates.

CNN tracked the guy down. (Maybe they just looked at their seating chart.) He’s actually 24-year-old aspiring filmmaker Gregory Caruso, son of millionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso, an avid GOP supporter (which explains the front row seat). He doesn’t have Twitter or Facebook, but found out about the whole thing from less Luddite friends of his who kept texting him.

“It’s pretty hilarious,” he said. “Social media can focus on some guy at the debate instead of the debate.”

Caruso also says he’s a big fan of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, so, just as a reminder: Fairy tales aren’t real.

(Via BuzzFeed and CNN)