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    Party of One

    Donald Trump may have been absent from last night’s debate, but he still owns the GOP.
    by Peter Wehner Aug 24, 2023 5 minutes
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    Last night’s GOP presidential debate featured eight candidates, none of them named Donald Trump, but it was the former president who won the night. His aggregate lead in the national polls is titanic—he is more than 40 points ahead of the fast-fading Ron DeSantis—and nothing that happened on the debate stage in Milwaukee will change that.

    Those who watched the debate will, for a few hours anyway, remember certain moments, good and bad, and take away certain impressions, positive and negative.

    For my part, I thought two former governors, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie, were

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