The second debate between the Republican aspirants to the White House does not offer much insight, other than the attacks on Donald Trump by his former allies. The first to point the finger at the former president, once again absent from the stage, is Ron DeSantis, for years considered the tycoon's dolphin.
“He should be here with us, but instead he is missing in action,” said the governor of Florida, accusing him of having added 7,800 billion to the debt and of having prepared the ground for today's inflation. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie stepped it up, before Mike Pence and Nikki Haley. «Donald I know you're watching, you can't resist. You are afraid of being on this stage to defend your results", he said, inventing the nickname "Donald Duck" for himself, i.e. the not very courageous Donald Duck.
Trump snubbed the debate at the Reagan Library to launch into a rally in Michigan among striking auto industry workers. “I am here to defend the working class,” the former president told the workers, explaining to them that Joe Biden's policy for electric cars will only favor China by killing thousands of jobs.
The strike of the powerful American metalworkers union also landed in the debate hosted by Fox. «Biden, instead of demonstrating with the workers, should be among the ranks of the unemployed. Bidenomics is a failure,” criticized former Vice President Mike Pence.
All aspiring Republicans agree on the failure of the president's economic policies. Substantial differences instead emerged on how to remedy the situation created by Biden, as well as on Ukraine. “It is in our interest to end this war, no more blank checks to Kiev,” DeSantis thundered. For Nikke Haley and Pence, however, a victory for Russia in Ukraine would be a victory for China. The other main candidates are also somewhat in favor of supporting Kiev.
Among the questions, there was a lot of space for social issues, from education to Obamacare, but no direct reference to the legal troubles of the former president who, even at the end of the second debate, does not seem to be in any danger in his unopposed bid for the nomination.
(Unioneonline/L)
