Posted on 11/08/2023 10:18:57 AM PST by FarCenter
The third Republican presidential-candidate debate in Miami on November 8 probably won’t draw as many eyeballs as the last, and the stage will be less crowded. But what it lacks in quantity of speakers and listeners it may make up for in drama and conflict.
As the voting phase of the GOP primary approaches, candidates other than Donald Trump are hanging onto viability by their fingernails and really need to do something to help themselves and damage the others. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are in a cage match for second place in the Iowa caucuses (the governor hopes a long-expected endorsement from Iowa governor Kim Reynolds on the evening of November 6 will save his steadily sinking ship). Tim Scott is on the edge of elimination in both the polls and the debates. It’s increasingly unclear why Trump mini-me Vivek Ramaswamy is running for president against his idol, even as he annoys Republican voters more each day. And anti-Trump stalwart Chris Christie is simply proving that somebody with absolutely no chance of winning the nomination can stick around by cornering the small market of GOP Never Trumpers.
So this is a group of candidates with little or nothing to lose, each of them desperately trying to become the one that challenges the front-runner. With Trump absent once again, it’s a recipe for intramural carnage. As it happens, Scott’s campaign manager, Jennifer Decasper, has virtually provided a script for how it might go down from her candidate’s perspective. She wrote in a memo obtained by Politico:
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There is a debate? Who is debating?
Want to tune in for the third GOP presidential debate? Here’s how to watch
https://apnews.com/article/republican-debate-channel-livestream-cb41fbcf6dc1276d8269d12fc0d6fd2a
who cares? there’s only one frontrunner, and everyone else is just evening news filler
You mean they already had 2 debates?
I didn’t even notice
I forgot I might need a sarc tag on that post.
Thanks, but no thanks. :)
Same lot as previously except for Pence, Burgum and Hutchinson.
“Want to tune in for the third GOP presidential debate?”
NO.
Anyone hear what Trump’s alternative trolling plan for the evening is?
What is there to debate about?
We have open lawless borders with millions walking in illegally unabated for 40+ years, 33 trillion in debt, inflation is choking people off, foreign policies that are literally sabotaging America, draining off what is left of the American treasure.
This is a joke.
“probably won’t draw as many eyeballs”
This is the first one on a broadcast network so it is available to more viewers.
Come on man? This is just a messaging problem.
Trolling plan? You’re going to choke when DeSantos eventually figures out he can’t derail Trump, and takes the butthurt bus back to Miami.
This “debate” is like the members of “the squad” fighting over who gets to be Miss America. A ludicrous delusion.
Odd statement, given the temper tantrum about election fraud Trump has thrown for the last 3 years.
YAWN. Nothingburger debate.
I am not watching unless they promise to throw excrement at each other.
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