Who won the Republican Party debate?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
There were eight candidates on stage last night in Milwaukee all vying for the Republican nomination to be president.
But the man who’ll almost certainly get it was locked in a rambling conspiracy heavy chinwag with his recently sacked Fox friend Tucker Carlson.
Who won the debate on stage? Will any of it shift the dial? And will they still pledge loyalty to Trump if he’s convicted of a crime ?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Social Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | You all signed a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee. |
| 0:18.1 | If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him as your party's choice? |
| 0:25.4 | Please raise your hand if you would. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, that was the moment of the night for me. Just to put this in context, eight candidates on stage, all vying to be |
| 0:40.8 | the Republican nomination for president, are asked if they would continue to support a convicted |
| 0:46.9 | felon in the name of Donald Trump. And you would imagine it is a question that they have thought |
| 0:53.5 | about, because let's face it, |
| 0:55.7 | it is the biggest question facing the Republican hopefuls and the American people. We're not |
| 1:03.2 | going to tell you just yet how people voted with those hands, but they were uncertain. And that, |
| 1:09.0 | in a sense, encapsulates the dilemma of the Republican Party |
| 1:14.1 | what to do about Donald Trump. |
| 1:17.9 | Welcome to Newsagents USA. |
| 1:22.5 | This is the Newsagents USA with Emily Maidless and John Sobel. |
| 1:32.1 | It's John. |
| 1:33.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:34.7 | And you've interrupted your holiday because we couldn't resist the idea of a Republican party debate, the first one. |
| 1:44.6 | It's like the starting gun has finally been fired for the start of the 2024 presidential |
| 1:49.9 | election campaign when you have all the candidates, except one, on stage, vying for the nomination. |
| 1:56.4 | Yeah, that except one is a pretty big if. |
| 1:59.2 | But last night in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, which is a swing state, eight of the candidates who qualified, |
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