Donald Trump was the big winner. Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party’s political pride didn’t fare so well.
It could scarcely have turned out better for the absentee frontrunner. He decided to skip the debate because it wasn’t worth his time — what with his nearly 40-point lead in the polls. And the candidates who want to beat him spent much of the debate pretending he wasn’t even in the race.
The candidates who qualified for the first 2024 Republican primary debate on Aug. 23 weighed in on former president Donald Trump’s bid for reelection. But Ramaswamy was unfazed through just about all of it. And over and over again, he benefitted from being pitted against theHe got in perhaps the most pronounced defense of Trump, accusing Christie of “blindly bashing Trump without an iota of vision for this country.” It was a line that DeSantis’s super PAC wanted its candidate to land, according toRamaswamy also frequently cut in, gaming relatively lax enforcement of the debate rules to make himself the center of attention.
DeSantis’s endorsement was less fulsome, though, saying after some pressing from Pence himself, “Mike did his duty. I’ve got no beef with him. But here’s the thing: Is this what we’re going to be focusing on?” If he had beneficial moments, they were when he positioned himself as the anti-Covid-lockdown candidate. He also sought subtle contrasts with Trump, citing his landslide Florida reelection win in 2022 and saying, “You don’t take in someone like [coronavirus task force member Anthony] Fauci and coddle him.”But this is also a guy who badly needs to arrest his steady slide in this race. He needed this debate more than anyone. But it just wasn’t memorable in any way, shape or form.
Others pushing federal bans pushed back, but Haley doubled down on her point that the party just hasn’t won this issue enough to be able to do such things.Haley launched her campaign making similar points about the GOP’s many popular-vote losses — seven of the last eight presidential elections, including both of Trump’s races.
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