Tonight's GOP debate: Who, when and where to watch
Election 2024
Faith E. PinhoDec. 6, 2023
Four presidential hopefuls will face each other for the fourth time Wednesday night for the final Republican
primary
debate of the year.
Instead,
The
group of
candidates
vying for a distant second place
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will take the stage at the University of Alabama
is this its name? could be confusing. the name is University of Alabama. It is located in Tuscaloosathis wording is fine/donr
in Tuscaloosa.
The debate will begin at 5 p.m. Pacific. It will air on NewsNation, via television, online streaming and phone apps
lication
. The CW television network will also broadcast the debate in the Eastern and Central time zones. KTLA-TV (Channel 5) in Los Angeles will carry the debate at 5 and again at 8 p.m. Online streaming platform Rumble will also
carrybroadcast
the event.
Former President Trump, who has skipped the previous three primary debates, plans to skip Wednesday night’s event as well.
Trump enjoys a
huge comfortable
lead over his opponents, with 59% support on average in Republican primary polls, according to polling aggregatore FiveThirtyEight. DeSantis averages 13%, with Haley
close behind at on his heels with
10.5%
support
.
Several candidate
s
have
already
dropped out of the race
,
months before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses
set for in
Jan
uary
. 15. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum was the latest to exit the field Monday, following former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott
, who quit last month when? Last month, right?
.
NewsNation anchor Elizabeth Vargas,
one of the debate moderators
, told The Times she would focus many of the questions on Trump, who is the main opponent the four candidates have to overcome. In previous debates, candidates focused their ire mostly on President Biden or
oneeach an
other.
NewsNation is also inviting viewers to submit questions for the candidates.
Vargas will moderate
the debate
alongside Megyn Kelly, host of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, and
does this take a “THE” theWashington Free Beacon editor in chief
Eliana Johnson
, editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon
. The debate could be a boon to the relatively nascent NewsNation network, which has steadily been growing since its launch in 2020. Last month’s third GOP candidate debate drew 7 million viewers to NBC.
All of us at NewsNation are incredibly honored to be hosting a presidential primary debate and to be part of what will be another historic election season. We are also extremely pleased to have the opportunity to introduce more Americans to NewsNation,” said Sean Compton, Nexstars president of networks, in a statement.
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