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Vivek Ramaswamy is America’s demagogue-in-waiting

The Republican debate became the entrepreneur’s coming-out party, with the news media boosting him along his way

The Guardian - US

Political debates have turned into media circuses. It’s time for a new format.

These big-stage productions with huge audiences encourage all the worst tendencies among the candidates, rewarding the worst demagogues.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pence says 'elections are about choices' after combative first debate performance

Former Vice President Mike Pence says viewers should expect to see the same, more combative candidate at the next GOP debate as he urged his former running-mate-turned-rival Donald Trump to join his competitors on stage next time around

The Independent UK

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What could a Republican presidency mean for the war of Ukraine? The first debate gave us the answer

GOP candidates avoid consensus while Democrats unify behind continued aid

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis accused of overselling his Navy SEAL career at GOP debate

Florida governor served as legal adviser to a Navy SEAL commander in Iraq

The Independent UK

Republican activist says party ‘deserves to lose’ if it fails to address climate crisis

Benji Backer, executive chairman of conservative climate group, calls question on crisis in debate ‘historic’ but laments answers

The Guardian - US

At the Races: Prime time fault lines? - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

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Campaign money flows to GOP presidential candidates after their debate. Ramaswamy raises $450,000

The first Republican presidential debate provided an opportunity for candidates to make their cases directly to a national audience, and some of that attention is translating into boosts for their campaign coffers

The Independent UK

Republican Presidential Contenders Make Faith And Family A Central Issue

Pew Research Center says that the number of Americans who consider themselves as religious has declined.

Zenger

The Guardian view on the US Republican debate: stumped by Trump

Editorial: Even though he decided not to attend, the former president cast a long shadow over this week’s debate between his rivals

The Guardian - UK

The Republican candidates have learned from Trump’s legal woes and are condemning Jan 6 – aside from Vivek Ramaswamy

The former vice president had a standout moment at the first Republican debate as he put himself forward as the defender of the Constitution, Gustaf Kilander writes

The Independent UK

The Republican debate was a spectacle of sadism and self-regarding piousness

The debate was the party in miniature: vexed, divided, driven by their base to unpopular extremes, glorying in fantasies of revenge and social purification

The Guardian - US

Does Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut off funding for Israel?

Ramaswamy has said that Israel would not depend on US aid by the end of his first term

The Independent UK

Presidential debate shows how GOP candidates are struggling to address concerns about climate change

The Republican Party's presidential candidates are struggling to address growing concerns about climate change

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Salon

Ramaswamy accused of plagiarizing Obama

Republican candidate's "skinny kid with a funny name" line came from Obama's 2004 Democratic Convention speech

The Guardian - US

Former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – as it happened

President Trump has become first former US president to have mugshot taken after turning himself in at Georgia jail

The Guardian - US

Who won the Republican debate? Our panel reacts

Donald Trump may not have been on the stage, but he was the winner of the debate

The Guardian - US

Republican hopefuls shrug when asked about climate crisis during debate

While most candidates didn’t flat out deny the climate emergency – save Vivek Ramaswamy – they showed no urgency to address it

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Skinny guy with the funny name out to topple the big guns

Barack Obama had some political experience before his presidential run; Vivek Ramaswamy has come from nowhere

Evening Standard

Race to close the gap with Donald Trump gets weirder

Republican rivals trade blows in debate as Donald Trump faces racketeering arrest in Georgia

Salon

Why do Republicans even bother?

Trump wasn't there, but we saw why he's leading: GOP voters don't care about substance, just unjustified grievances

WEKU

5 takeaways from the first Republican primary debate

The first Republican debate of the 2024 election cycle is in the books. Without the front-runner onstage, each candidate had the opportunity to grab the spotlight, though some had more of an impact.

The Guardian - US

Spectre of Trump haunts debate as candidates jostle for spotlight

Abortion and the southern border energized presidential hopefuls, while the war in Ukraine elicited divided opinions

The Guardian - US

A Republican debate that offered no alternative to Trump

Joe Biden and his predecessor were the big winners as GOP nominees on Fox News simply squabbled among themselves

Roll Call

‘Booing is allowed’: Four takeaways from GOP debate as Trump stays home

Even without him, Donald Trump was a key part of the first GOP presidential debate, along with abortion rights, debt, and military spending.

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