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#165 - Should the Republican Party Re-Nominate Trump?

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Former Senator Jeff Flake and the New York Times’ Bret Stephens team up to argue the motion, “The Republican Party Should Not Re-Nominate Trump.” They face Kris Kobach, a former Trump advisor and former Kansas Secretary of State, and Fox New’s Liz Peek, who are rooting for Trump 2020. Learn more about Intelligence Squared U.S. and cast your vote to decide the winner at IQ2US.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And so we have an election coming up not this week, not this month, not this year,

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but in November 2020, November 3rd, 2020.

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And unless something really out of the ordinary happens, a man named Donald Trump certainly seems to be planning to run.

1:04.0

And is a second Trump run something that the Republican Party should be celebrating and embracing?

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Or is it something to be very, very worried about?

1:14.0

Well, that without much more elaboration needed is the question on the table for us,

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because we think it has the makings of a debate.

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So let's have it.

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Yes or no, to this statement, the Republican Party should not re-nominate Trump.

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I'm John Donvan. I stand between two teams of two.

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All conservatives, but highly and sharply divided on this question.

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As always, our debate will go in three rounds, and then our audience here at the K-Playhouse

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