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What You Missed in Likely Last GOP Debate Before Iowa Votes for President

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The fourth, and perhaps final, Republican presidential primary debate as four candidates met Wednesday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Once again, GOP front-runner Donald Trump declined to appear. Sarah Feldpausch, director of government relations at Heritage Action for America, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the biggest hits and misses of this fourth debate. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation, whose grassroots advocacy arm is Heritage Action.) Gathered without Trump at the University of Alabama were Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The debate could well be the final GOP presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses Jan. 15.  Since the third GOP debate Nov. 8, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina dropped out of the race. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who didn't meet qualification tests for the third debate, announced Monday that he is suspending his campaign.  Trump chose to skip the fourth debate as he did the preceding ones, instead participating Tuesday night in a live "town hall" meeting hosted by Fox News host Sean Hannity in Davenport, Iowa. On the night of the debate, Trump planned to hold a fundraiser in Florida.  Feldpausch also assesses Trump’s live appearance Tuesday night with Hannity.  Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily See Bill podcast for Thursday, December 7th. I'm Virginia Allen. Last night was the fourth presidential

0:15.2

primary GOP debate. Four candidates were on stage. Florida Governor Ron

0:20.2

DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nicki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswami, and former

0:26.5

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

0:28.8

Former President Donald Trump again chose to not participate and instead held a fundraising event on Wednesday night.

0:36.0

Joining us right now on the show to break down the biggest moments and policy discussions

0:40.8

from the fourth debate is the director of government relations at

0:45.1

Heritage Action for America. Sarah Feld Posh. Sarah, thanks for being with us.

0:49.3

Of course. So this is the fourth debate.

0:52.5

This is expected to be the final debate before the Iowa Caucasus on January 15th, began on January 15th.

1:00.8

What was

1:05.0

one last candidate?

1:08.0

one last candidate,

1:11.0

Tim Scott has dropped out since the last debate in early November, so that was an

1:16.2

absence on stage, and I think, you know, four candidates staring down the camera and the questions

1:21.1

from the moderators, you definitely had more time on stage and I think they kind of broadened up the topics, but you know some of the ones that the topics right that that stuck out and maintained from the last debate,

1:33.4

you know, they continued the discussion

1:35.2

around the Hamas terror attacks in Israel,

1:38.0

you know, border security and immigration, debt and deficit,

1:41.3

but then may also introduce some different topics and I thought was really good to hear from the candidates and hear where their head was at on some topic. Central Bank digital currency, for example, that DeSantis brought up.

1:54.8

You had sort of bloated government agency topic that was mentioned by several candidates on stage,

2:00.0

election integrity, you know, threats of the Chinese Communist Party.

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