In the USA, the first televised debate between the candidates for the White House of the Republican party.

Eight participants and a major absentee: Donald Trump, who has decided to desert the confrontation – hosted in Milwakee and broadcast by Fox News – but who does not give up his will to participate in the presidential race despite the many judicial problems.

THE EIGHT CANDIDATES - The other contenders for the nomination of the Grand OId Party were face to face: Florida Governor Ron Desantis, his North Dakota colleague Doug Burgum, former Vice President Mike Pence, the former governors of New Jersey Chris Christie and Arkansas Asa Hutchinson (both former federal prosecutors), the African-American Senator Tim Scott, the entrepreneur of Indian origin Vivek Ramaswamy, the only outsider of the evening. The only woman instead the former governor of South Carolina Nikky Haley (former US ambassador to the UN under the Trump presidency).

TRUMP – According to commentators, no one particularly shone and the Trump "spectre" continued to hover over the evening, such as when the candidates agreed with the decision by Mike Pence, Trump's former deputy, to condemn and take the distances from the attitude of the former president on the occasion of the assault on the Capitol following the election of Biden.

As for Trump, in an interview granted on X to his anchorman friend Tucker Carlson, he once again brought out what are now his "incendiary" workhorses, starting with the belief that the 2020 elections that saw him defeated were vitiated by fraud.

(Unioneonline/lf)