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Weekend Listening: The First GOP Debate and the Elephant Not in the Room
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Weekend Listening: The First GOP Debate and the Elephant Not in the Room
Republican presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley face off at the first debate of the GOP primary season. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A Free Press roundtable on who won—and lost—the Republican ruckus.
By Bari Weiss
08.26.23 — U.S. Politics
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On Wednesday night, Fox News and the streaming platform Rumble hosted the first Republican presidential debate with the eight GOP hopefuls who made the cut: North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, former New Jersey governor Chris Ch…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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