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The first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential election primary cycle is Wednesday, August 23 beginning at 9 p.m. ET, airing live from Milwaukee exclusively on Fox News Channel and streaming on FoxNews.com, Fox Nation and Rumble. Fox News’ Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will moderate the two-hour debate at Fiserv Forum, the site of …

Scott Olson/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential contenders appeared united during Wednesday night’s primary debate in finding candidate Vivek Ramaswamy deeply annoying.But that’s not a problem for some of the internet’s other most annoying people.“Vivek is increasingly compelling,” posted Twitter/X owner Elon Musk during the debate. Musk later tweeted that Ramaswamy, who called climate change a hoax, was “impressive,” in response to similar praise...

Nearly 13 million people watched the first Republican primary debate on Fox News on Wednesday night, well below the 20 million that tuned into Fox to watch the first GOP primary debate in 2015 — when Donald Trump debuted on the stage. That 2015 debate was like nothing that had been previously seen on a…

The flubs may be remembered far more than any of the attacks, and may inflict more lasting damage.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyLong before Donald Trump publicly threatened to skip out on the first 2024 presidential primary debate, Republican National Committee officials knew he was going to be a problem.Going back more than a year, the group charged with planning the GOP’s first primary debates since 2016 discussed the likelihood that the former president would skip the first one if Fox News ended up hosting, according to two RNC members familiar with the...

Trump is currently averaging 52.5% support in the 2024 Republican primary, according to FiveThirtyEight. Christie is averaging 3.5%.

These candidate faceoffs are some of the most overrated events in American politics. | Opinion

Former President Trump confirmed Sunday that he will not attend the first Republican presidential debate next week and left open the possibility that he would skip future primary debates, citing his sizable lead in national polls as a primary reason. In a post on Truth Social, Trump cited a CBS News poll released earlier Sunday that showed…

No incumbent president has ever participated in a primary debate. That could be a mistake.

A senior adviser to Donald Trump on Monday predicted that the former president is unlikely to participate in future primary debates after he said he plans to skip Wednesday’s in Wisconsin. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday night that he would “not be doing the debates,” citing his sizable lead in GOP primary polls…