The Situation: The primary Republican main debate on Wednesday evening in Milwaukee, Wisc.
After listening to the Republican presidential candidates who debated Wednesday evening, it’s apparent what an immeasurable and ineffable enchancment any of them could be over the present occupant of the White Home (“The correct stuff,” Aug. 24).
To vote for any of these eight vs. a Biden/Harris ticket is a nationwide no-brainer.
Embody Trump within the fray, nevertheless, and that calculus adjustments dramatically.
Trump clearly can do two issues to guarantee a GOP victory subsequent 12 months: Step apart and preserve it buttoned. These easy actions would go farther than something to make America nice once more.
Anthony Parks
Backyard Metropolis
So Trump skipped the primary GOP debate of the 2024 elections.
He appears to assume he had a profitable presidency and is the entrance runner now. I do know in any other case.
He didn’t “make America nice once more.” He misplaced the 2020 election by 11 million votes, and the GOP misplaced many elections due to him in 2022.
As a Republican, Trump is a non-issue for me. I’m on the lookout for a special, higher chief with a imaginative and prescient for America — not the identical previous lies and conspiracies from Trump.
Clement Prabakaran
Sterling Heights, Mich.
Nikki Haley nailed it within the first Republican debate.
Trump has executed some really nice issues for the nation. However as probably the most polarizing — if not hated — politician in America, there is no such thing as a means the Republicans can win with him. She is totally proper: Transfer on, America.
Is it actually definitely worth the good feeling of attempting to get again on the Democrats solely to lose and be saddled by one other 4 debilitating years of President Biden?
Different candidates who will not be saddled with Trump’s baggage can lead America again.
The idea that solely Trump will be profitable is ludicrous. He’ll solely divide America extra, and all of us lose within the course of.
Tim Ruef
Oakland, NJ
I’m glad Trump didn’t present up for the controversy. It gave the opposite hopefuls an opportunity to point out themselves to America with out the specter of Trump overshadowing the proceedings.
As a number of the candidates introduced up, Trump may be so busy within the kangaroo courts that he won’t have sufficient time to correctly marketing campaign. That makes it extra necessary than ever to look at the opposite contestants fastidiously to see who would take advantage of viable alternative.
I’m sure that any of the individuals standing on the podiums Wednesday evening could be a more sensible choice than the present muddled and incompetent president. All of us deserve higher, and hopefully we are going to get higher.
Warren Goldfein
Mount Arlington, NJ
Viewing this debate highlighted one evident subject: Not one of the candidates — together with one absentee — demonstrated something that might make them worthy of being president of the US.
All as in Hamlet, they strutted their hour upon the stage, stuffed with sound and fury however signifying nothing.
The get together has no bench power and depends upon a failed and morally bankrupt TV character to hold the banner. Is that what the GOP has grow to be?
Paul Alexander
Ontario, Canada
So let me get this straight — Vice President Mike Pence and virtually the entire GOP candidates on the stage on imagine Pence acted correctly in refusing to upend the 2020 election on Jan. 6, thus thwarting a person who was ignoring his presidential oath to protect and defend the Structure.
However aside from Govs. Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie, they’d all vote for that man even when he was convicted of a felony in any one in all his myriad indictments?
Name it hypocritical. Name it oxymoronic. I believe I’ll simply stick to moronic.
On the threat of sounding sexist, these of us — together with the in any other case very admirable Haley — must develop a pair.
Matthew J. Transient
Manhattan
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