'The elephant not in the room': Takeaways from the first Republican debate
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
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The first Republican debate is in the books.
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USA TODAY Health Reporter Karen Weintraub looks at new speech technology for people with paralysis.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Thursday, |
| 0:07.8 | the 24th of August, 2023. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, what we learned from the first Republican presidential debate, plus the Afghani pregozion |
| 0:26.4 | is presumed dead. |
| 0:28.2 | When we look at how new technology can help return speech to paralyze people. |
| 0:40.2 | Republican presidential candidates took the debate stage last night for the first time |
| 0:44.4 | in the build up to the 2024 election. |
| 0:47.0 | They did so in a Milwaukee debate that aired on Fox News channel, and in a race dominated |
| 0:52.6 | by Donald Trump, there was the former president's absence that dominated much of the night, |
| 0:57.8 | just if they would still back Trump as the GOP nominee and the general election, if |
| 1:02.0 | he's convicted, most of the eight contenders raised their hands. |
| 1:06.2 | One exception, former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, and former New Jersey governor |
| 1:10.7 | Chris Christie seemed to raise his hand halfway before strongly going after Trump, the following |
| 1:16.6 | is courtesy of Fox News channel. |
| 1:43.0 | Still throughout the two hour discussion, the Republican field struggled to make a clear |
| 1:46.9 | argument against Trump. |
| 1:48.9 | Polls show he's leading his next closest counterpart, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, by about |
| 1:53.9 | 40 percentage points in national polls. |
| 1:57.0 | DeSantis didn't take shots at the former president, spending more time railing on the current |
| 2:01.5 | president's son, Hunter Biden, and characterizing the U.S. as a country that's lost its way. |
| 2:07.9 | Maybe the sharpest case against Trump came from former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, |
| 2:12.9 | who served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during the Trump administration. |
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