{"id":1997662,"date":"2023-08-11T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/up-for-debate-where-trump-desantis-and-rest-of-republican-2024-field-stand-on-key-issues\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:16:23","slug":"up-for-debate-where-trump-desantis-and-rest-of-republican-2024-field-stand-on-key-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/up-for-debate-where-trump-desantis-and-rest-of-republican-2024-field-stand-on-key-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican 2024 field&#8217;s stance on key issues: Trump, DeSantis, and more."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fup-for-debate-where-trump-desantis-and-rest-of-republican-2024-field-stand-on-key-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The First Republican Presidential Debate: \u2064Up For Debate<\/h2>\n<p>The first\u2063 Republican presidential debate is fast approaching on Aug. 23, when candidates \u2063will hope to \u200cclose the gap\u200c on \u200dformer President \u2063Donald \u200dTrump and separate from the rest\u200c of the pack. In this \u200bseries, Up For\u2064 Debate, \u2062the Washington Examiner will look at a key issue or policy every day up \u2062until debate day\u2063 and where key candidates stand.<\/p>\n<h3>Driving\u200d Issues for the Field<\/h3>\n<p>Below is a list of each breakdown published by the Washington Examiner on driving issues for the field:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Spending and Debt<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Many of the Republican candidates for president have hit out at President Joe Biden\u200b for adding to the national debt since \u2063being sworn into office. Notably, Biden\u200b and\u200c Democrats oversaw a rash of spending early on in the form of pandemic relief and continued that with \u2064other legislation. It is bound to \u200bbe a\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-might-keep-more-humane-version-of-trump-immigration-policy\/\" title=\"REPORT: Biden Might Keep \u2018More Humane\u2019 Version Of Trump Immigration Policy\">big topic<\/a> at the first debate, and throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Impeachment of Joe Biden<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Republican members of the House Oversight Committee suggested that a \u2063Biden \u200cimpeachment inquiry was necessary after Devon Archer, a business associate of \u200bHunter Biden, testified behind closed doors with the committee. But the movement has \u200cdivided more moderate Republicans who represent districts that Biden won and would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/up-for-debate-where-trump-desantis-and-rest-of-republican-2024-field-stand-on-key-issues\/\" title=\"Republican 2024 field's stance on key issues: Trump, DeSantis, and more.\">face\u200c tough reelection bids<\/a> in 2024 if \u200bimpeachment charges were brought up,\u2063 threatening \u200dthe Republican House majority. Some of \u2063the Republicans running for president have not hesitated, however, to support the more conservative wing of their party \u2062in\u200b moving to impeach Biden.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Reforming\u200d the \u2062FBI and \u200cDOJ<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Republican \u200c2024 candidates have almost unilaterally used the\u200d term &#8220;weaponized&#8221; to describe the Department of Justice during this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/game-over-for-jack-smith-attorney-says-trump-can-file-one-motion-that-would-change-everything\/\" title=\"Attorney claims Trump's single motion could alter Jack Smith's 'Game Over' situation.\">election \u2063cycle<\/a>. Some have elevated concerns that the DOJ and FBI labeled parents of students &#8220;domestic terrorists,&#8221; discriminated against \u2062certain traditional Catholics, or coordinated\u2064 with social media companies \u2063to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-court-order-halts-government-instigated-censorship-by-big-tech\/\" title=\"Court stops government-backed censorship by Big Tech.\">censor protected speech<\/a>. But more than any other issue, all of the \u200ccandidates have been forced, on multiple occasions, to take a \u200dposition\u2063 on the \u200dDOJ&#8217;s decision to prosecute the primary front-runner, \u200dformer \u2062President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Abortion<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Abortion\u200b has already splintered \u200bthe GOP primary field, giving candidates a talking point when it \u2063comes to\u2063 distinguishing themselves in the first\u200b Republican debate of \u200cthe 2024 presidential\u200d election cycle. In \u200dmany issues, analysts see the field as divided into Trump and non-Trump categories, but candidates have positioned themselves on \u2064the abortion debate on a scale of whether there is\u200d a federal role \u2062in it or \u200bwhether it is a state issue.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Energy and Climate\u200d Change<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Energy and climate priorities will be a key focus in the 2024\u2064 Republican\u200d primary race as the candidates look to\u200d position themselves on oil and gas production, energy security, and\u200b sustainability topics such as environmental, social, and\u200b governance, \u200cor ESG, spending. While the candidates espouse a wide range of views on these topics, each hopes to \u200bpresent himself or herself as \u200ca clear\u2063 alternative to President Joe Biden, whose policies, they\u200c argue, are\u2062 crippling \u200deconomic growth, pushing up consumer prices, and threatening U.S. competitiveness while\u200b driving an outsize reliance on China \u200dfor manufacturing and production.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Foreign Policy<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming \u2064August 12<\/p>\n<li><strong>Immigration and the Border<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 13<\/p>\n<li><strong>The Second Amendment<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 14<\/p>\n<li><strong>Education<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August \u206415<\/p>\n<li><strong>Taxes<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 16<\/p>\n<li><strong>Big Tech<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 17<\/p>\n<li><strong>LGBT Issues<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 18<\/p>\n<li><strong>Defense and the \u2064Military<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 19<\/p>\n<li><strong>Crime<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming\u2062 August \u206320<\/p>\n<li><strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 21<\/p>\n<li><strong>Election \u2063Integrity<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 22<\/p>\n<li><strong>Size of the\u200c Federal \u2062Government<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>Coming August 23<\/p>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates on these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-political-divides-deepen-on-key-issues-leading-up-to-2022\/\" title=\"Poll: Political Divides Deepen on Key Issues Leading Up to 2022\">key issues leading<\/a> up to the\u200c first Republican presidential debate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Republican presidential debate on Aug. 23 is crucial for candidates to catch up to Donald Trump and stand out from the competition. 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