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‘You're Wrong’ With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 60: The GOP Debate

Federalist Radio Hour

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Will the first GOP debate be a snoozefest? Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Senior Editor David Harsanyi as they preview what they expect from Wednesday's Republican primary debate and former President Donald Trump's decision to skip the event for an interview with Tucker Carlson. They also discuss David's change of heart about Oliver Anthony's music, explain just how deep Department of Justice corruption runs, and analyze the corporate media's failing upward hiring strategy.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to a new episode. I'm going to start again because my voice

0:21.8

cracked one, two, three. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to a new episode of Your Wrong with

0:26.5

Molly Hemingway and David Harsani. This week, I think the big topic, Molly, will be the GOP

0:33.6

presidential debate without Donald Trump. I'm not sure how important it is, but it is happening. And

0:39.7

I'm kind of excited to actually see how these sort of second tier people stack up against each other.

0:45.2

How about you? Yeah, I, I have been saying for months, how annoyed I am with the primary and how I

0:50.6

don't want to be thinking about it and how I think there are all these like other important things

0:53.8

going on. But I will admit I woke up this morning and I was like, oh, it's debate day. And I got

0:58.2

a little excited. I'm very curious to see how different people answer different questions. I have,

1:03.6

you know, lots of thoughts on what people should be doing, how they should approach things.

1:09.5

I even, I was talking with a DeSantis advisor yesterday about Trump not showing up.

1:16.9

And I was also thinking about this because you and I had been talking about Johnny Rotten and his

1:21.5

new album that's out. And he had strongly criticized President Biden for not debating his

1:29.0

primary opponents. Like the Democrat party is just not even hosting debates. Even though his

1:35.0

opponents have pretty strong polling, that'd be Marianne Williamson and Robert Kennedy.

1:45.8

And Johnny Rotten was talking about how off it is to not debate how it's like just sort of like a

1:50.1

slap in the face of people. And anyway, I was talking to this DeSantis advisor and I do think

1:56.0

Republicans do not look favorably on Donald Trump not showing up for this debate. I don't think

2:02.2

it's like the biggest issue in the world, but I think they would like it both because they like

2:08.0

to see him debate and also because they think it's like a way to show respect for the voter. But

2:12.6

I don't know what do you think about that? I don't know what people think, but I do know that

2:17.0

strategically on paper makes sense for him not to debate. He's the front runner. He's way up

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