Meet the Press Special: First GOP Debate

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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After the first Republican presidential debate, Chuck Todd speaks with DeSantis Deputy Campaign Manager David Polyansky and Jason Miller, senior Trump adviser. Shaq Brewster speaks with voters in suburban Waukesha, Wisconsin. Vaughn Hillyard reports on the former president’s counter programming with Tucker Carlson. Amy Walter, publisher of the Cook Political Report, Lanhee Chen, former Mitt Romney adviser, and Danielle Pletka, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, join the roundtable.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday, it is debate night in America and the field versus the frontrunner.
0:07.8	As eight Republican presidential candidates are faced with their biggest test yet,
0:12.8	how to reckon with Donald Trump's grip on the race, without him even on the stage.
0:19.4	This is a Meet the Press Special, live from Washington.
0:23.5	Here's Chuck Todd.
0:27.2	Welcome to the Meet the Press, debate night special, the first Republican presidential debate is in the box.
0:32.8	I'm Chuck Todd reporting from Washington.
0:34.4	We've got a big hour, a post-debate coverage, and analysis, so let's hurry up and dive in.
0:39.0	The major question going into this first debate was whether they ate candidates on stage,
0:43.1	could or would do something to change the basic pattern or trajectory of this race.
0:50.4	That's so far been dominated by the frontrunner Donald Trump, who skipped tonight,
0:54.6	citing his commandingly.
0:56.8	Well, with the debate wrapping up, it appears for now that the status quo probably will remain.
1:01.0	No candidate on stage, substantively, changed their stance on the former president.
1:05.0	Trump's name was actually barely mentioned by anyone in the entire first hour of the debate,
1:09.2	and then this is how the second hour kicked off.
1:13.8	You all signed a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee.
1:18.8	If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law,
1:22.8	would you still support him as your party's choice?
1:26.3	Please raise your hand if you would.
1:28.9	Just hold on.
1:38.9	Yeah, you saw that.
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