Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy laid into the others with punchy one-liners, but also came under attack.
Because of the scale of Trump’s lead over the others – FiveThirtyEight put Trump at 52 points, with second placed Ron DeSantis on 15 – the seven men and one woman, needed to seize the moment to make a breakthrough.
“The American president needs to have moral clarity,” said Haley, in one of her best moments of the night. “When you look at the situation with Russia and Ukraine, here you have a pro-American country that was invaded by a thug.” Former Vice President Mike Pence has pitched himself as a defender of the constitution – namely by not acceding to Trump’s demand to steal the election – and a champion of Christian values.
“Well over a year ago, I said that Donald Trump was morally disqualified from being president again as a result of what happened on January 6. More people are understanding the importance of that, including conservative legal scholars who says he may be disqualified under the 14th amendment from being president again, as a result of the insurrection.”
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