{"id":2010098,"date":"2023-08-23T22:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-six-of-the-eight-candidates-raise-hands-to-support-trump-if-convicted\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:45:07","slug":"republican-debate-six-of-the-eight-candidates-raise-hands-to-support-trump-if-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-six-of-the-eight-candidates-raise-hands-to-support-trump-if-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Six out of eight Republican candidates pledge support for Trump if convicted."},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublican-debate-six-of-the-eight-candidates-raise-hands-to-support-trump-if-convicted%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=2010098&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>2024 Presidential Candidates\u200d Divided on Supporting Trump<\/h2>\n<p>During a recent debate, the\u200c question\u200c of\u200d whether the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-rfk-jr-a-very-smart-person-following-candidates-controversal-covid-remark\/\" title=\"Trump praises RFK Jr as 'very intelligent' despite controversial COVID comment.\">2024 presidential\u2064 candidates<\/a> would support former\u2064 President\u200b Donald Trump\u200d if \u2062he is convicted in \u200bhis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-six-of-the-eight-candidates-raise-hands-to-support-trump-if-convicted\/\" title=\"Six out of eight Republican candidates pledge support for Trump if convicted.\">ongoing criminal cases \u2062sparked<\/a> a lively discussion. Out\u200d of the \u200deight candidates, only two refrained from raising their hands.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Supporters<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Vivek Ramaswamy<\/li>\n<li>Nikki Haley<\/li>\n<li>Doug \u200dBurgum (R-ND)<\/li>\n<li>Tim Scott (R-SC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These four candidates confidently expressed \u2064their support for Trump as \u200cthe GOP presidential \u200dcandidate. However, the reactions from the remaining \u2062candidates varied.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Contemplators<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ron DeSantis \u2063(R-FL)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Pence<\/li>\n<li>Chris Christie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After a\u200d moment of \u200cconsideration,\u2062 DeSantis raised \u200bhis \u200chand, followed by Pence. Christie initially appeared to raise \u2063his hand but later clarified \u2062that he was shaking his \u200bfinger \u2062in disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>Christie voiced his concerns about \u2064normalizing Trump&#8217;s conduct, stating, &#8220;Whether or not you believe that the criminal charges \u200dare right or wrong, the conduct is beneath \u200dthe office of \u200bPresident of the United \u2063States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, however,\u2063 challenged Christie&#8217;s credibility, suggesting that his criticism of Trump\u200d would be\u2064 more valid if it weren&#8217;t\u200d driven by personal vendetta.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Dissenter<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Asa Hutchinson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hutchinson\u200b stood\u2063 firm in his decision not to support Trump, citing moral disqualification\u200b and adherence to constitutional principles.<\/p>\n<p>While\u200d there\u2062 were differing \u2063opinions on Trump, \u2064the candidates found\u200d common ground in their support for \u200cPence&#8217;s actions on January 6, 2021, when he certified the\u2064 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis emphasized the need to focus on the future, stating, \u2064&#8221;So Republicans, we&#8217;ve got \u2062to look \u2064forward and we&#8217;ve \u200dgot to make sure that we&#8217;re\u200d bringing the message \u2063that can win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haley echoed this sentiment, calling \u2063for a\u200c &#8220;new generational leader&#8221; and acknowledging that a rematch between Trump and Biden may \u200bnot be favorable for the party.<\/p>\n<p>It \u2064is clear that the question\u200d of supporting\u200d Trump remains a\u200d divisive issue among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candace-owens-teases-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Candace Owens Teases Presidential Run\">2024 presidential candidates<\/a>, with\u200d each candidate offering their own perspective on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click \u200bhere<\/a> \u200d to \u200bread more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hand down, stating that he would not support Trump if convicted. Similarly, entrepreneur Peter Thiel also kept his hand down, expressing his lack of support for the former president in such circumstances. These two candidates stood out among the rest, highlighting their differing stance on Trump&#8217;s potential legal troubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}