SPECIAL EDITION: The final Republican debate.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The final Republican debate. On Wednesday night, four candidates gathered in Alabama for the fourth and final Republican debate: former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. For the fourth consecutive time, former President Donald Trump, who is leading the GOP primary by a wide margin, didn't participate.
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| 0:41.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. Today is December 7th, a Thursday, and we've got a little bit of a special edition for you today. |
| 1:08.5 | We're going to be talking about the fourth and |
| 1:10.9 | final Republican debate that happened last night. Before we jump in, a couple of quick notes. |
| 1:17.7 | First, tomorrow, we are going to publish a piece right here on the podcast that is a paywalled |
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| 2:07.6 | video up on our channel, Donald Trump, 2.0. What's going to happen? If he gets reelected, |
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| 2:20.3 | All right. With that out of the way, we're going to jump in with some quick hits. |
| 2:28.3 | First up, U.S. gas prices have fallen to an 11-month low, hitting an average of $3.22 per gallon, |
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