Highlights from the first 2024 GOP primary debate

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EIGHT Republican presidential candidates traded barbs on issues from the economy to climate to Ukraine on Wednesday (August 23), jockeying for position behind the absent front-runner, Donald Trump, who skipped the first of the 2024 debates. • Without Trump, his rivals were left taking shots at one another - and at President Joe Biden - to try to emerge as the most viable alternative, five months before the kickoff nominating contest in Iowa and more than 14 months before the election. • While Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has consistently stood in second place in polls, albeit well behind Trump, it was Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur and political neophyte, who was at the center of many of the Fox News debate's most dramatic moments. • Ramaswamy, a fierce Trump defender who is rising in national polls, faced plenty of incoming fire from his more experienced rivals, who appeared to view him as more of a threat than DeSantis. • We don't need to bring in a rookie, former Vice President Mike Pence said, while former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie accused Ramaswamy of sounding like ChatGPT, a reference to artificial intelligence. • Ramaswamy fired back by emphasizing his status as an outsider, calling everyone else on stage bought and paid for and accusing DeSantis of being a super PAC puppet, a reference to independent political action committees that typically raise unlimited sums of money from corporations and individuals. • He also took the most isolationist position on the Ukraine-Russia war, arguing that it was not a priority for the U.S. and saying he would end military aid to Ukraine. That drew a sharp rebuke from Nikki Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, who said he had no foreign policy experience, and it shows. • The Sun newspaper brings you the latest breaking news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world • Become a Sun Subscriber and hit the bell to be the first to know • Read The Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk • Like The Sun on Facebook: / thesun • Follow The Sun on Twitter: / thesun • Subscribe to The Sun on Snapchat: / 1633225139 • #politics #debate #unitesstates #republicanparty

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