What to Know About the 2nd GOP Presidential Debate

Seven GOP candidates took to the talk stage Wednesday evening on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, for the second Republican presidential debate.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum spent two hours answering questions from debate moderators Dana Perino of the Fox Information Channel, Stuart Varney of Fox Enterprise Community, and Univision anchor Ilia Calderón. Former two-term Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson didn’t qualify for the second debate. 

Former President Donald Trump skipped Wednesday evening’s debate, opting as an alternative to ship a speech at an auto components producer and provider about 25 miles northeast of Detroit.  

A number of vital moments stood out from the second GOP presidential debate, and Nathan Duell, the California state director of Heritage Motion for America, joins “The Day by day Sign Podcast” to clarify how the talk in comparison with the primary one Aug. 23 in Milwaukee and what points moderators ought to have addressed, however didn’t. (The Day by day Sign is the information outlet of The Heritage Basis. Heritage Motion for America is an unbiased nonprofit group affiliated with Heritage.)

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