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On Wednesday night, seven men and one woman took part in what might go down as the least important debate in presidential campaign history.
Throughout the first GOP primary debate of the 2024 election cycle, all the participants desperately tried to establish their
bona fides in front of a crowd that seemed — from the
booing that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received when he went after Donald Trump’s moral and legal challenges — overwhelmingly pro-Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump himself had declined to join the rough-and-tumble and was basking in the coverage of his pre-recorded interview on Twitter with Tucker Carlson, which, according to preliminary estimates, had received
74 million views by the time the GOP debate ended.
To their credit, the two
Fox moderators,
Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, asked some relatively hardball questions.
They pushed the candidates on whether they backed a national abortion ban. They brought in a young Republican to ask about climate change and whether the candidates would acknowledge it was real — with the exception of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, none of the candidates would wholeheartedly go down that road.
Halfway in, they got around to asking the candidates’ positions on Trump and his four pending trials, as well as his actions surrounding January 6. They also asked about Ukraine, about how to tackle the fentanyl crisis, about homelessness and about rising crime rates. These are all serious issues, and the moderators attempted to steer the conversation to cover this large and fertile ground.
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