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    In first 2024 presidential debate, 8 GOP hopefuls make their case for dethroning Trump

    MILWAUKEE — Like a chorus line awaiting its leading man, eight Republican presidential hopefuls opened their first debate Wednesday night without the party’s main attraction, hoping to show they can solve a puzzle that has bewildered GOP politicians for eights years: how to get past Donald Trump. The former president, who is skipping the Fox News debate, inspires fierce loyalty among about ...
    by Seema Mehta and David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2023 5 minutes
    Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during the first debate of the GOP primary season, hosted by FOX News, at the Fiserv Forum on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee.

    MILWAUKEE — Like a chorus line awaiting its leading man, eight Republican presidential hopefuls opened their first debate Wednesday night without the party’s main attraction, hoping to show they can solve a puzzle that has bewildered GOP politicians for eights years: how to get past Donald Trump.

    The former president, who is skipping the Fox News debate, inspires fierce loyalty among about three in 10 Republican voters and consistently leads his closest opponents by 40 points or more in polls.

    But he also causes dread and deep antipathy in other wings of the party and will enter the primaries facing 91 criminal charges in four separate indictments brought by three prosecutors.

    His eight rivals face a singular task: how to capitalize on Trump’s problems without alienating his supporters.

    Some analysts see that assignment as hopeless. They point to Trump’s iron grip on his core supporters

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