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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Assessing The Candidates' Performance After The First Republican Debate & The Road Ahead

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Martha is joined by FOX News Contributor and Chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Examiner Byron York, and FOX News Contributor and Outnumbered Panelist Katie Pavlich, as they share their assessment of the candidates' performances in the first 2024 Republican Primary debate. Later, Byron shares why he believes Vivek Ramaswamy was one of the winners of the night, Katie weighs in on how the issue of abortion will factor into the 2024 election, and together they discuss the absence of former President Donald Trump from the debate. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.2

Hello, everybody. It's Martha McCallum, live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin this morning, the day after the big debate. And this is the Untold Story podcast. I'm really glad to have my friends, Byron York and Katie Pavlitch, with us this morning to talk a little bit about what we watched last night and where the race for the Republican nomination goes from here.

1:03.7

So Byron and Katie, good morning.

1:05.2

Good morning.

1:12.4

So obviously people will be listening to this throughout the week, but it is the morning after the debate right now.

1:16.6

And it was a lively scene out there last night.

1:19.6

And I'm curious what your impressions were.

1:28.8

Katie, let me start with you about the candidates, how they did, and, you know, how they addressed the questions that were asked last night.

1:30.1

It was pretty lively, as I said.

1:37.5

Yeah, you guys did a great job of getting things out and the questions that people, I think,

1:39.6

in Republican primaries want to hear answered.

1:44.6

Initial takeaways are that, you know, Ron DeSantis going in is at number two. So I, I expected a lot of incoming for him. Did it really sticky? A lot of that. Some, most of that

1:50.0

reserved for Vyak Ramoswami. He's obviously been climbing in the polls and catching DeSantis.

1:54.9

Uh, I thought that he, you know, there were a lot of back and fork between, you know, Chris Christie and Peter Karamoswamy and the former vice president

2:02.4

Mike Pence and Vivek Ramoswamy, but DeSantis really was able to answer your questions and rise above

2:08.8

kind of the back and forth debate based on personality. You know, Vivek took a lot of incoming

2:15.4

from a number of people who were attacking his inexperience and trying to take advantage of his young age and lack of experience in politics.

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