the republican party, former president trump took a break from courtum appearances to tak questions in a fox news town hall. in this n town hall he said absolutely nothing new. it was the same lies, same talking points, and essentially a rally with questions. let s be very clear, folks, the only normal aspect of tonight s debate was the presence of podiums. the candidates took the stage just after vocal trump critic, former new jersey governor chris christie suspended his campaign refusing to endorse any of his former opponents. in a normal world a re-election losing 91 felony counts facic, twice impeached front-runner who didn t show up to debate at anything would be a prime candidate prime target for any candidate hoping to take the lead, right? that s in normal times. but desantis and haley declined to focus on the elephant not in the room. instead they saved their most ruthless barbs for each other. we need to stand up for the people and not bow down to woke corporati
minutes for that debate, i thint it was jarring for a voter who might want to show up and hear a plan what a haley or desantis administration might look like. i think there were points of that. for those of us who covered 2020 and the democratic primary, the idea you could only have one glancing question and a brief question about health care policy isf completely shocking because we went through debates in 2020 with the democrats that were 30he minutes of deep polic debates on the role of health care and how government should play aca role in that. this is just a completely different primary, one that reallyne functions off of natiol trends, not necessarily the time the candidates spent on the ground in iowa, and these debate stages are so incomplete in the way they are structured simply because trump has taken himself out of it, and none of the other candidates have seemed to adjust their debate stage strategy to account for thafact they re not actually going against each other. they