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☆ Vivek Ramaswamy floats Elon Musk as a potential White House advisor if he wins the 2024 presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy floated Elon Musk as a potential White House advisor. Ramaswamy has praised Musk's actions after taking over Twitter, which has now been rebranded as X. "I expect him to be an interesting advisor of mine," Ramaswamy said during a Friday event in Iowa. During an Iowa campaign event, the entrepreneur — whose presidential candidacy has surged among GOP voters in recent weeks — spoke fondly of Musk. "I've enjoyed getting to know better Elon Musk recently.

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☆ DeSantis Super PAC will launch a $25 million ad blitz in Iowa and New Hampshire to reverse campaign's slide in the GOP presidential race
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Never Back Down is looking to reverse DeSantis' presidential campaign slump with a sizable ad buy. DeSantis has promoted his conservative record on the trail, but Trump continues to dominate the GOP race. Top officials for Never Back Down, who were encouraged by DeSantis' debate performance on Wednesday, outlined their strategy at a lunch shortly before the debate, according to The Post. Such a development would also be welcome news amid headlines about layoffs and campaign shakeups in the DeSantis campaign. AdvertisementAdvertisement"We are totally dominating DeSanctus right here in the state of Florida," Trump said at the time, mispronouncing the governor's last name.

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☆ Opinion | The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Like far too many of you, I watched the Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night, during which all of the most popular contenders in the field tried to stand out and establish themselves as a serious alternative for the Republican presidential nomination. Donald Trump, who wasn’t on stage for the debate. The pretense of the debate was that the candidates could talk about themselves and the future of the Republican Party without the former president, but that was simply impossible. But the issue wasn’t just that Trump was unavoidable; it was that none of the other candidates had much to say for themselves. Even the most dynamic of the contenders, Vivek Ramaswamy, was doing little more than his own spin on Trump’s persona.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, There’s, Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy Organizations: Republican, Capitol, Republican Party Locations: Florida

☆ Fact-Checking Vivek Ramaswamy on the Campaign Trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Linda Qiu | More About Linda Qiu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

First, Mr. Manuel is not an “Obama appointee” but rather participated in a leadership development program run by the Obama Foundation in 2019. Noting high winds and drought, the company requested permission to fill a private reservoir for fire control, though the reservoir was not connected to fire hydrants. The water agency asked the company whether the fire department had made the request, received no answer and said that it needed the approval of a farmer who relied on the water for his crops. The company said that it could not reach the farmer, but that the agency approved the request hours later. The executive, in another letter, also wrote that “we would never imply responsibility” on Mr. Manuel’s part.

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☆ Trump's mug shot caps off a messy week for American politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The atmospherics are distractingFormer President Donald Trump’s stone-faced mug shot and the televised motorcade of his trip to court painted his arrest Thursday at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta with a reality TV theatricality. Trump’s control of the party he remade around himself continues to hold. But ultimately, just as he was forced to submit to a mug shot, Trump will have to submit to the fact that juries of his peers, American citizens, will decide these trials of the century. It’s far from a mainstream view, and Trump’s multiple arrests have so far yielded little in the way of mass protest. He could win acquittal in any or all four of the trials in which he’s a defendant.

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☆ Trump still dominates, no DeSantis bounce from Republican debate, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Jason Lange | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at the first Republican candidates' debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 23, 2023. But it showed DeSantis remained stuck in distant second place with 13% of support of Republican respondents while Trump, the former president, had 52%, marginally higher than the 47% he received in a Reuters/Ipsos poll in early August. Still, about half of Republican respondents said they were more likely to support DeSantis based on what they had heard about the debate. About four in 10 Republicans said they were more likely to back Ramaswamy or Haley based on the debate. Only 5% of Republicans said they outright backed Ramaswamy while only 4% supported Haley, similar shares to what they had before the debate.

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☆ Nikki Haley’s GOP Debate Truths
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land: Republican presidential hopefuls Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy and maybe even Donald Trump are united on spending. All offer a much safer future than the alternative. Images: Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyIf Nikki Haley gets a bump in the polls from Wednesday’s presidential debate, one reason will be that she respected viewers by telling them the truth. Ms. Haley said, accurately, that passing a national abortion ban at 15 weeks is politically off the table, since it would require 60 votes in the Senate. She has argued this before, but many Republicans might be hearing it for the first time.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump, Mark Kelly, Haley Organizations: Republican, Zuma

☆ Vivek Ramaswamy’s Challenge: Embrace Trump and Take His Supporters
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Eliza Collins | Aaron Zitner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Ramaswamy Doctrine
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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A Washington Post/FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos survey of Republicans after the debate showed that only 4 percent believed Mr. Scott had won, placing him toward the back of the pack. The day after the debate, he garnered only 3 percent of the candidate searches, which can be a metric of voter interest. Eric Levine, a New York lawyer and Republican donor who attended the debate as a guest of Mr. Scott’s campaign, said he believed the senator had won by staying above the fray. “Very few questions were actually asked of Tim Scott. “Tim Scott is built for this race,” Ms. Gitcho said.

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☆ SPACs can't be killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital, presents during the 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., April 23, 2018. Although SPACs raised just $13 billion last year, this week produced a deal that looks like it could have happened during the heyday. From U.S. presidential hopefuls’ forays to a continued SPAC king’s virality, SPACs’ reach is a reminder that they are hard to kill. This week, one of those SPACs bought Better.com, a mortgage lender led by Vishal Garg and backed by SoftBank Group (9984.T). They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

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“My personal favorite was Nikki Haley,” Sarcone told CNN of the former South Carolina governor after watching Wednesday’s debate at her Urbandale home in the Des Moines suburbs. Betsy Sarcone, right, watches the GOP debate with her parents Russ and Susan Sanders. To that end, these were the two biggest takeaways from our group: Haley made a strong impression, and Ramaswamy stirs an undercard version of the Trump GOP divide. “Some Trump people may have found that attractive about Ramaswamy, right?” Betsy Sarcone said. She personally would be my favorite candidate right now.

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☆ Opinion | Raising a Hand for the Man in the Mug Shot
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( David Firestone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Hand-raising is a juvenile and reductive exercise in any political debate, but it’s worth unpacking this moment, which provides clarity into the damage that Mr. Trump has inflicted on his own party. But even Nikki Haley, though she generally tried to position herself as a reasonable alternative to Mr. Ramaswamy’s earsplitting drivel, raised her hand. Only Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson demonstrated some respect for the rule of law by opposing the election of a criminal. Mr. Hutchinson said Mr. Trump was “morally disqualified” from being president because of what happened on Jan. 6, and made the interesting argument that he may also be legally disqualified under the 14th Amendment for inciting an insurrection. Mr. Christie said the country had to stop “normalizing” Mr. Trump’s conduct, which he said was beneath the office of president.

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☆ Opinion: He’s been booked. His mug shot has been taken. And incredibly this might not end Donald Trump’s race for the White House
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Editor’s Note: Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. CNN —On Thursday evening, Donald J. Trump had his mug shot taken as he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. The sheriff office’s record listed the former president as “White Male 6’ 3” 215 lbs” with “Blond or Strawberry” hair and “blue” eyes. He attacked investigators through his public rhetoric, refused to follow traditional decorum and seemed to say whatever he wanted to. As a result, when many Americans see a mug shot like this, the photograph barely causes a stir.

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☆ GOP Debate: ‘Rookie’ Ramaswamy and Absent Trump in the Spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Lahaina Residents Allowed to Return for First Time Since Maui Fire Residents were able to enter Lahaina on Wednesday for the first time since wildfires devastated the historic town last week. WSJ joined Pamela Tumpap, the president of Maui’s Chamber of Commerce, to see the damage. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/AFP

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The eight candidates who sparred in the GOP debate still face the tough challenge of chipping away at Trump’s lead in the race. NBC News’ Shaq Brewster watched the debate with a group of two-time Trump voters in Waukesha, Wis.. Asked to raise their hand if the debate made them interested in a candidate other than Trump, all four voters kept their hands down. Still, Benfield plans to support Trump’s campaign next year. Hoosier showdown: GOP Rep. Jim Banks’ Senate run got a boost during the GOP debate, with the conservative group launching an ad on Fox News supporting his bid.

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☆ Vivek Ramaswamy Grabs Spotlight at First Republican Primary Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Aaron Zitner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Fact Check-Five statements examined after first GOP primary debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Fox News hosted the Republican Party’s first primary debate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, with party front-runner Donald Trump absent from Wednesday night’s lineup. Reuters Fact Check examined five statements made during the debate. The debt rose to about $27.8 trillion when he left office on Jan. 20, 2021, representing a $7.9 trillion increase (here). After fetal viability, abortion is allowed in all three states if the pregnant person’s life or health is threatened, according to state legislation. After 24 weeks, abortion is permitted in New York if the pregnant person’s mental health is at risk (here).

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The raucous two-hour debate offered a view of the deep challenges the contenders face in seeking to dislodge Trump from his perch at the top of the field. The debate took place a day before Trump planned to surrender in Atlanta to face charges he sought to overturn his election loss in the state. That led to a sharp back-and-forth between Christie, Trump's biggest critic among Republican candidates, and Ramaswamy, Trump's most ardent defender. In the most recent Reuters/Ipsos poll released this month, Trump held 47% of the Republican vote nationally, with DeSantis dropping six percentage points from July to 13%. Moderators Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier, both Fox News hosts, started the debate by asking about the U.S. economy.

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☆ The awkward debate moment where GOP candidates reluctantly backed Trump shows why they don't stand a chance to unseat him
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

During the first GOP debate, most candidates said they'd support Donald Trump if he were convicted. The awkward moment was a coup for Trump, who skipped the debate entirely to chat with Tucker Carlson in a pre-recorded interview. Trump has argued that the candidates challenging him for the GOP nod were no threat to him. AdvertisementAdvertisementSince he stunned the Republican establishment in 2016, Trump has built his political brand on being the brash, tough outsider. It's a bizarre situation: A group of politicians running to unseat Donald Trump who all say they'll still back him even if he's a convicted criminal.

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☆ The Republican Debate Came Down to These Five Moments - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ross Douthat: Of all the varied and vigorous clashes between Mike Pence and Vivek Ramaswamy, the moment when Ramaswamy started talking about despair and doom and declining mental health in America and Pence shot back with the claim that actually there’s nothing wrong with the American people, just with our failed government and leaders, offered an especially pellucid distillation of the big divide between pre-Trump and post-Trump conservatism. It’s a divide that’s both ideological and generational, pitting the old G.O.P. defaults (which are clearly still Pence’s defaults) of patriotic boosterism against a growing sense on the right that the American exceptionalism conservatives once defended has decayed or dissolved — and that something more radical than a message of small government and stewardship is required to bring it back.

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☆ Opinion | Trump’s Shadow Over the Republican Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Debate Stage Was Complete and Utter Moral Cowardice” (Opinion, nytimes.com, Aug. 24):Frank Bruni is on target regarding those candidates who raised their hands in support of a Donald Trump candidacy, even if he is convicted. Sadly, those same candidates have a realistic understanding of the leadership cult that is today’s Republican Party. Donald Trump is a great admirer of the vindictive Vladimir Putin, who demands unconditional, one-way loyalty. Stephen SanderPennsbury Township, Pa.To the Editor:Re “Ramaswamy Seizes Spotlight as DeSantis Hangs Back: 7 Debate Takeaways” (nytimes.com, Aug. 24):Vivek Ramaswamy’s performance at the first G.O.P. presidential debate showed that he learned a lesson from the success of Donald Trump in capturing the Republican Party nomination in 2016: The more outrageous you are, the more attention you will get.

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☆ Ukrainian lawmaker says GOP debate comments on reducing military aid ‘concerning and upsetting’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ukrainian lawmaker Lesia Vasylenko on Thursday said some U.S. Republican presidential candidate comments over support for her country are concerning. "With some of the United States politicians claiming that they will reduce the support to Ukraine, well, that's actually quite concerning, and upsetting in a way because the United States [is] the country that has been the strongest supporter of democracy and has been the baseline for democracy," Vasylenko told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe," in response to statements made during the inaugural debate of Republican presidential candidates on Wednesday. The issue sharply divides the nine leading GOP contenders for the top U.S. job. During the Republican discussion, outspoken entrepreneur and political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy said he would not support additional aid to Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion, calling U.S. support for Ukraine "disastrous" and a distraction from domestic issues. Ramaswamy was rebuked by opponent Nikki Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, who has argued for the provision of equipment and ammunition to Ukraine.

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☆ Opinion | DeSantis Shrank in Ramaswamy’s Shadow
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a crowded debate, you can tell which candidates are seen as the greatest threat because they take the most incoming fire from their rivals. Watching the DeSantis campaign collapse has been an extraordinarily edifying spectacle. Trump endorsed DeSantis for governor of Florida when DeSantis was struggling against a strong Republican opponent for the party’s nomination. So, there was always something in the DeSantis campaign that knew that he was Macbeth coming to kill his king. He lacks the courage, which is ironic given that DeSantis wrote a book before his run entitled, “The Courage to Be Free.”

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One thing was clear when former President Donald J. Trump decided to skip the first debate of the 2024 Republican primary race: There would be a vacuum to fill. But it was not Mr. Trump’s chief rival in the polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who emerged at the epicenter of the first Trump-free showdown on Wednesday, but instead the political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy, whose unlikely rise has revealed the remarkable degree to which the former president has remade the party. Mr. DeSantis had stumbled heading into the debate and was widely seen as in need of a stabilizing performance. All eight candidates mostly jostled for position among themselves, and few targeted the front-runner who is set to surrender on Thursday after his fourth criminal indictment.

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