The Republican Primary Is Slipping Away
At the GOP debate, Trump’s rivals once again declined their opportunity to take on the absent front-runner. They’re running out of chances.
“We’ve become a party of losers,” the conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy declared during the opening minutes of tonight’s Republican primary debate in Florida. He bemoaned the GOP’s lackluster performance in yesterday’s elections, and then he identified the Republican he held personally responsible for the party’s defeats. Was this the moment, a viewer might have wondered, that a top GOP presidential contender would finally take on Donald Trump, the absent front-runner who hasn’t deigned to join his rivals on the debate stage?
Of course not.
Ramaswamy proceeded to blame
