Who Won The First GOP Debate?
Sekulow
Jay Sekulow
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
WHO WON THE DEBATE? On today’s show, the Sekulow team analyzes the debate performance of the Republican candidates to see who helped or hurt their chances of overtaking Trump’s seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls. Former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Governor Nikki Haley, former Governor Chris Christie, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, and former Governor Asa Hutchinson all took the stage last night at the first GOP primary debate (hosted by Fox News). Most notably absent was former President Donald Trump, who aired an interview with Tucker Carlson on X (formerly Twitter) concurrently. Which of these candidates has the best chance of beating President Joe Biden in the 2024 election? The team also discusses Trump’s forthcoming surrender today at Fulton County Jail after his fourth indictment.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Seculo, who won the first GOP debate? |
| 0:06.0 | Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever. |
| 0:10.0 | This is Seculo. |
| 0:13.0 | We want to hear from you. |
| 0:15.0 | Share and post your comments for call 1-800-684-3-110. |
| 0:23.0 | And now your host, Jordan Seculo. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey, welcome to Seculo. |
| 0:27.0 | Take your calls. |
| 0:28.0 | Want your input today? |
| 0:29.0 | 1-800-684-31. |
| 0:30.0 | Tim, we'll give you ours as well. |
| 0:31.0 | There was the first GOP debate last night. |
| 0:33.0 | Of course, as they call it, the elephant of the room, the elephant that was in the room. |
| 0:36.0 | Of course, Donald Trump did not take part in the debate. |
| 0:39.0 | And, man, I think that after you watched it, you could clearly see why. |
| 0:44.0 | It does seem to be not that all these folks are good people and some have done a lot of work with us here at the ACLJ. |
| 0:51.0 | But it certainly seemed like the JV team on the stage. |
| 0:55.0 | And the varsity player wasn't there. |
| 0:57.0 | And I say that because there was a lot of rehearsed lines, a lot of prepared statements. |
| 1:02.0 | And when it ever came to something off the cuff, I thought the hand raising moment was the most politician moment of the night. |
| 1:08.0 | When they all had to look at each other to say, am I going to raise my hand to say what I still vote for Donald Trump? |
| 1:12.0 | And Barack Obama's wife was the only person who said immediately he would do it. |
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