{"id":2010985,"date":"2023-08-24T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-primary-debate-was-a-dud-for-americans-worried-about-leftist-destruction-of-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:43:06","slug":"gop-primary-debate-was-a-dud-for-americans-worried-about-leftist-destruction-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-primary-debate-was-a-dud-for-americans-worried-about-leftist-destruction-of-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Primary Debate Failed to Address Concerns of Americans Fearing Leftist Nation&#8217;s Demise."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgop-primary-debate-was-a-dud-for-americans-worried-about-leftist-destruction-of-the-nation%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=2010985&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Concerned\u2062 Americans Left Disappointed by GOP\u200d Primary Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Concerned \u2062Americans looking for pledges that Republicans will \u200bdo everything in their power to stop the left\u2019s destruction of the country did not find them at the GOP primary debate \u200bon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Hosts Martha\u200b MacCallum and \u200dBret Baier kicked off the\u2062 night by asking\u200d candidates to analyze why Oliver Anthony\u2019s\u200d hit song \u201cRich Men \u200cNorth Of\u200c Richmond\u201d resonated with Americans. From there,\u200b the moderators\u2019 line of questioning quickly deteriorated.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When it came time for \u2062a question on abortion, Fox \u200dNews host and \u2063debate moderator Martha MacCallum <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/06\/future-gop-victories-hinge-on-positive-pro-life-messaging-not-ignoring-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inaccurately framed<\/a> Republicans\u2019 pro-life \u2063priorities as a\u200d \u201closing issue \u200d\u2026\u2062 since\u2063 the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moderators gave\u200c the Republicans plenty of time to toot their fiscal horns and posture about funding the war in Ukraine. \u2062Noticeably missing from the debate stage, however, were key questions about problems\u200d facing voters every day, like attacks on their religious liberty, the pervasion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-has-only-just-begun\/\" title=\"GOP: The Fight Against Critical Race Theory Has Only Just Begun\">radical gender ideology<\/a>, the integrity of \u200dthe Supreme Court, and the rampant corruption clutching all\u200b of the country\u2019s major bureaucratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>By the \u200cend of \u2064the evening, voters heard more about candidates\u2019 opinions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2023\/08\/24\/chris-christie-shocked-by-lone-question-about-ufos-at-republican-presidential-primary-debate\/70664825007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extraterrestrial life<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1694526225845281086?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate\u200d change<\/a>, and January 6 than top GOP issues like\u2063 the weaponization\u2062 of the FBI and DOJ and\u2063 Democrats\u2019 ongoing indictment \u200dscheme against\u200d former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/4-in-5-americans-see-two-tiered-justice-system-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majority<\/a> of Americans recognize a two-tiered system of justice governs the U.S. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/harvardharrispoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HHP_June2023_KeyResults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">56 \u2063percent<\/a> say they understand \u200cthe Trump indictments are \u201cinterference by the \u2063Department of Justice in the 2024 \u200celection\u201d instead of a \u201cfair application of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite \u2062the concerns it elicits\u200b from voters across the board, the corruption of the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-primary-debate-was-a-dud-for-americans-worried-about-leftist-destruction-of-the-nation\/\" title=\"GOP Primary Debate Failed to Address Concerns of Americans Fearing Leftist Nation's Demise.\">top federal law enforcement arm<\/a> did\u2062 not\u2062 even\u2062 make the list of \u201cmost-discussed topics\u201d on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"b1pwF9gWKZAzWB4Sr86Lbf4GzGxfhyHsPFT2RKlxkV2Xa51unEDUtPiLiDXhjgdC7tIMmqJyOQomBM\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abortion \u2063and \u2063Donald Trump led the way as the most-discussed topics at\u2062 Wednesday&#8217;s \u2062Republican presidential \u2063debate. See more, including who spoke the longest and which candidates took the most \u200cattacks from others. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdxFHy4FVl\">https:\/\/t.co\/xdxFHy4FVl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/svLcoIoKyE\">pic.twitter.com\/svLcoIoKyE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In\u2063 fact, \u2062the debate \u2063was more than halfway over before moderators even spoke up about Trump\u2019s name or looming sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Instead \u2064of asking candidates to detail\u2064 their plan to eradicate the\u200b lawless institutions wreaking havoc on Americans\u2019 constitutional rights and meddling in the \u200c2024 election, Baier asked which\u2064 GOP candidates would support former \u2062President Donald Trump as\u2064 the\u2064 Republican nominee even\u200d if he is \u201cconvicted in a court of law.\u201d All except former\u2064 New\u2062 Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson raised their hands.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of issue-specific questions from moderators left it up to individual candidates to bring up how Americans have endured government-led attacks on their preferred presidential candidate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-lives-matter-arkansas-gov-signs-near-total-abortion-ban-that-supporters-hope-will-force-scotus-to-revisit-roe-v-wade\/\" title=\"\u2018All Lives Matter\u2019: Arkansas Gov. Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban That Supporters Hope Will Force SCOTUS To Revisit Roe v. Wade\">pro-life convictions<\/a>,\u2062 and other beliefs for years.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis demanded an \u201cend [to] \u2062the weaponization \u200dof these federal\u200c agents.\u201d Sen. Tim Scott pledged to fire \u200bAttorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director\u200b Christopher Wray over their institution\u2019s ongoing\u2064 malfeasance.\u2062 When entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy\u2062 interjected that \u201cfiring Christopher Wray is\u2063 not \u200bgoing to [do anything],\u201d he \u2062was shut down by Baier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou \u2062have to shut\u200d down the FBI, actually have the courage to get it right,\u201d Ramaswamy\u200b snuck in before moderators moved to another question.<\/p>\n<p>At\u2063 one point, DeSantis signaled that the onstage quibble was \u200bshifting\u200d away from conversation conservatives \u200bcared\u2064 about toward \u2064establishment babble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what the Democrats\u2063 would\u2063 like to do. They\u200b want to talk about all these other issues, but we \u200bhave \u200bgot to focus on\u200d your future. We have got to focus on reversing the \u2064decline of our country,\u201d DeSantis \u2064said.<\/p>\n<p>After that, however, the conversation never returned to weaponization.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, however, both Fox News and the\u2063 GOP candidates on\u200c that stage did a \u2064poor job of offering\u2062 Americans reassurance\u2062 that\u2064 they hadn\u2019t already adopted the same <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/02\/republicans-who-dont-impeach-biden-et-al-now-are-part-of-the-partisan-prosecution-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do-nothing attitude<\/a> Republicans in \u200cCongress have about the\u200b deep state\u2019s war \u2063on voters.<\/p>\n<p>That is no accident. Wednesday\u2019s debate wasn\u2019t \u2062simply \u201cout \u2063of touch\u201d because it was the product of GOP establishment pawns. It was deliberately orchestrated to thwart the goals of the conservative populist base that elected the latest Republican president, who opted to join an interview with \u200bFox News\u2019 \u200cbiggest firing instead of\u200b arguing \u2062on a stage in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Republican inaction on the weaponization of \u2062the federal government is why \u2064the Biden administration can name <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/11\/garlands-special-counsel-gambit-confirms-hunter-investigation-was-always-shady\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scandal-plagued Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss<\/a> \u200das\u2063 special counsel over the ongoing \u2064Biden investigation. It\u2019s also why \u200dpartisan \u2063actors\u200c all \u200cover the country have successfully racked up dozens of charges \u2063against the former leader\u2062 of \u2062the free world.<\/p>\n<p>Americans don\u2019t want to hedge their \u20642024 bets on performative \u200cpoliticians. They want to elect problem-solvers who will turn their anxieties into\u200b action. The first\u200d GOP primary did\u200d nothing to soothe their \u2062voters\u2019 fears about the rapid\u2063 decline of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>What Americans needed to hear from candidates was\u200d a clear-cut plan on how they would completely annihilate decades of deceit and dishonesty from the DOJ and FBI. They\u200b needed to \u2062hear Republicans call the Trump indictments\u2062 the greatest\u2064 offense\u2063 the regime running the greatest nation in the world\u200b could commit.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t \u200dget answers in Milwaukee. If <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/21\/if-gop-contenders-cant-condemn-get-trump-lawfare-during-the-debate-their-2024-chances-are-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">history means anything<\/a>, they won\u2019t get straight answers from candidates \u200bon the campaign trail either.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned Americans seeking Republican pledges to halt the left&#8217;s countrywide destruction were disappointed during the GOP primary debate. Fox News Hosts Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier initiated the event by requesting candidates&#8217; analysis on Oliver Anthony&#8217;s popular song &#8220;Rich,&#8221; but failed to find the desired commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2010986,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/2010985","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}