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The first Republican presidential debate offered American voters a chance to start assessing potential GOP candidates who may emerge as the party’s frontrunner in the coming year. Throughout the debate, the candidates engaged in vigorous exchanges, addressing a range of topics including age, policy positions, and inevitably, the role of former President Donald Trump.
Straight Arrow News contributor Dr. Rashad Richey breaks down the Republican party’s recent “clown show” and provides perspective on how personality and entertainment has taken precedence over meaningful policy discourse.
You know, I really need Republicans to get their lives together. And I mean this in all due respect. The first GOP primary debate just happened. It was literally the biggest clown show, not including Donald Trump, to date.
What happened during that debate? Number one, Fox News decided to open the debate up with a song and ask the first probative question: “How does this song make you feel, Ron DeSantis?” It set the tone for the debate to be more like entertainment, rather than substantive.
According to Statista, the things important to you are: one — inflation — two — jobs, economy, immigration, things they really did not discuss. According to polling data, Donald Trump is not the number one fixation of Republicans. As a matter of fact, you all still — talking to Conservatives — give a damn about issues.
Now those issues may be contrary to my belief as to how they should be solved. But at least we’re talking about issues. At least, we’re talking about immigration, even if we disagree. At least we’re talking about economy and jobs, even if we disagree on how to get us to a better realization and implementation of solution.
