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Republican 2024 field’s stance on key issues: Trump, DeSantis, and more.

The First Republican Presidential Debate: ⁤Up For Debate

The first⁣ Republican presidential debate is fast approaching on Aug. 23, when candidates ⁣will hope to ‌close the gap‌ on ‍former President ⁣Donald ‍Trump and separate from the rest‌ of the pack. In this ​series, Up For⁤ Debate, ⁢the Washington Examiner will look at a key issue or policy every day up ⁢until debate day⁣ and where key candidates stand.

Driving‍ Issues for the Field

Below is a list of each breakdown published by the Washington Examiner on driving issues for the field:

  1. Spending and Debt
  2. Many of the Republican candidates for president have hit out at President Joe Biden​ for adding to the national debt since ⁣being sworn into office. Notably, Biden​ and‌ Democrats oversaw a rash of spending early on in the form of pandemic relief and continued that with ⁤other legislation. It is bound to ​be a⁣ big topic at the first debate, and throughout the campaign.

  3. Impeachment of Joe Biden
  4. Republican members of the House Oversight Committee suggested that a ⁣Biden ‌impeachment inquiry was necessary after Devon Archer, a business associate of ​Hunter Biden, testified behind closed doors with the committee. But the movement has ‌divided more moderate Republicans who represent districts that Biden won and would face‌ tough reelection bids in 2024 if ​impeachment charges were brought up,⁣ threatening ‍the Republican House majority. Some of ⁣the Republicans running for president have not hesitated, however, to support the more conservative wing of their party ⁢in​ moving to impeach Biden.

  5. Reforming‍ the ⁢FBI and ‌DOJ
  6. Republican ‌2024 candidates have almost unilaterally used the‍ term “weaponized” to describe the Department of Justice during this election ⁣cycle. Some have elevated concerns that the DOJ and FBI labeled parents of students “domestic terrorists,” discriminated against ⁢certain traditional Catholics, or coordinated⁤ with social media companies ⁣to censor protected speech. But more than any other issue, all of the ‌candidates have been forced, on multiple occasions, to take a ‍position⁣ on the ‍DOJ’s decision to prosecute the primary front-runner, ‍former ⁢President Donald Trump.

  7. Abortion
  8. Abortion​ has already splintered ​the GOP primary field, giving candidates a talking point when it ⁣comes to⁣ distinguishing themselves in the first​ Republican debate of ‌the 2024 presidential‍ election cycle. In ‍many issues, analysts see the field as divided into Trump and non-Trump categories, but candidates have positioned themselves on ⁤the abortion debate on a scale of whether there is‍ a federal role ⁢in it or ​whether it is a state issue.

  9. Energy and Climate‍ Change
  10. Energy and climate priorities will be a key focus in the 2024⁤ Republican‍ primary race as the candidates look to‍ position themselves on oil and gas production, energy security, and​ sustainability topics such as environmental, social, and​ governance, ‌or ESG, spending. While the candidates espouse a wide range of views on these topics, each hopes to ​present himself or herself as ‌a clear⁣ alternative to President Joe Biden, whose policies, they‌ argue, are⁢ crippling ‍economic growth, pushing up consumer prices, and threatening U.S. competitiveness while​ driving an outsize reliance on China ‍for manufacturing and production.

  11. Foreign Policy
  12. Coming ⁤August 12

  13. Immigration and the Border
  14. Coming August 13

  15. The Second Amendment
  16. Coming August 14

  17. Education
  18. Coming August ⁤15

  19. Taxes
  20. Coming August 16

  21. Big Tech
  22. Coming August 17

  23. LGBT Issues
  24. Coming August 18

  25. Defense and the ⁤Military
  26. Coming August 19

  27. Crime
  28. Coming⁢ August ⁣20

  29. Artificial Intelligence
  30. Coming August 21

  31. Election ⁣Integrity
  32. Coming August 22

  33. Size of the‌ Federal ⁢Government
  34. Coming August 23

Stay tuned for more updates on these key issues leading up to the‌ first Republican presidential debate!



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