Wednesday will be critical for those looking to give GOP voters an alternative.
Among Republicans, support for a national abortion ban has becomefor presidential hopefuls. The key is how strict they believe it should be.
Some, like Pence, have publicly supported a federal ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and have pushed fellow candidates to support it. Others, like Scott, have followed suit, expressing a willingness to sign whatever abortion ban a presumably Republican-led Congress passed into law. Haley has stressed it should be an issue left to the states to decide.
While Christie has seen his star rise among his regular critiques of the former president, few others have been willing to mirror his attacks for fear of alienating the Trump-supporting voters they will likely need behind them to win a general election. However, with most of the field competing for the same share of the Republican vote, candidates will need to find a way to outshine their colleagues as well as undermine the former president's viability if they want to win their party's nomination. With him, Republican candidates will need to find a way to make a case against him, rather than defending a man who didn't see fit to join them onstage.
"I think Trump is right to stay out of the debate," David Greenberg, an expert on presidential debates at Rutgers university-New Brunswick, toldin an interview."They'll be shadow-boxing. Yes. They will kind of look a little pathetic going after him when he's not there. But they'd have to be going after him if he were there. I mean, that's just the reality. He's the front-runner. They have to go after him.
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