Who Needs A Breakout Moment At Tonight’s Debate?

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tonight, Americans can tune into the second GOP presidential debate hosted by FOX Business and Univision. The moderators--Dana Perino, Stuart Varney, and Ilia Calderón--will guide the discussion for the seven candidates on the stage, addressing the issues that voters are most concerned about. The job of the moderator can be a difficult one, tasked with creating debate while maintaining civility. On the Rundown, FOX Business' Stuart Varney says this debate will have all the candidates "pressing hard to make a breakthrough." On the podcast, he explains how this debate will give candidates a chance to discuss big-picture issues for the economy and his plans to encourage more substantive debate between the contenders on stage. The latest FOX News poll shows that former President Donald Trump remains the party's frontrunner, with nearly a fifty-point lead ahead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. However, Trump will remain absent from the debate stage this week, maintaining his promise to not participate in any GOP primary debates. After candidates like Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy made headway in the first debate, now candidates are seeking break-out moments the second time around. Karl Rove, former senior advisor, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, and FOX News Contributor, joins the Rundown to reflect on what the candidates did well the first time around and explain why early national polls are not an indicator of the eventual nominee. Plus, commentary by Republican strategist and co-founder of South & Hill Strategies, Colin Reed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Greg Jarrett. I'm Sandra Smith. I'm Charles Payne and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.4	Wednesday, September 27th, 2023, I'm Jessica Rosenthal. It's debate night in America as most
0:15.5	of the Republican candidates meet for round two this time in California, where Fox moderators
0:20.3	will attempt to control more interaction between and among the candidates. That's how you get
0:25.2	a lively debate between the candidates, not an interview between the moderators and the candidates,
0:31.1	but a debate among themselves. We speak with Fox Business Anchor and one of the moderators of
0:35.8	tonight's GOP debate, Stuart Farney. I'm Dave Anthony. Like the first Republican debate,
0:42.5	the front runner, former President Trump will be a no-show. I don't understand why he's missing
0:49.1	the debates. He could dominate the stage. He'd be the center of attention. You know, he's not
0:55.2	a guy who has difficulty counterpunching. And I'm Colin Reed. I've got the final word in the Fox
1:00.8	News rundown. Can Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reverse a downward polling trend? Can former South
1:10.9	Carolina Governor Nikki Haley punch through even more? If the attention was on DeSantis ahead of
1:16.5	the first debate, things may have shifted now to Nikki Haley, whose polling numbers have jumped up.
1:21.6	She and all other Republican candidates are still far behind former President Trump,
1:25.7	who stopped by Haley's state for rally in Somerville on Monday. And in the new South Carolina
1:30.5	poll, I'm way up close to 51 or 52. And we're beating your former governor is not nearly as good
1:39.7	as your current governor, by the way, and we're being not even close, by the way. Now,
1:43.5	Nikki Haley, who served as Trump's ambassador to the UN after being South Carolina's governor,
1:48.1	was recently asked at a town hall in New Hampshire how Trump will be remembered a century from now.
1:53.9	She said Trump was the right president at the right time who broke things that needed
1:58.0	breaking, that he was strong on foreign policy, but thin skinned and easily distracted.
2:02.8	He didn't do anything on fiscal policy and really spent a lot of money and we're all paying
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