Nine months after former President Donald Trump threw his hat in the ring for the 2024 presidential nomination, his rivals finally had the opportunity to appear together for the first Republican debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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00:00 If former President Trump is convicted in a court of law, would you still support him
00:05 as your party's choice?
00:07 Please raise your hand if you would.
00:10 Just hold on.
00:16 So just to be clear, Governor Christie, you were kind of late to the game there, but you
00:24 know, I'm doing this.
00:25 I know you didn't.
00:26 But here's the bottom line.
00:29 Someone's got to stop normalizing this conduct.
00:34 OK, now, and now, whether or not whether or not you believe that the criminal charges
00:43 are right or wrong, the conduct is beneath the office of President of the United States.
00:54 We have to look at the fact that three quarters of Americans don't want a rematch between
01:00 Trump and Biden.
01:01 And we have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America.
01:06 We can't win a general election that way.
01:10 Here's the thing.
01:11 This election is not about January 6th of 2021.
01:16 It's about January 20th of 2025, when the next president is going to take office.
01:21 Look, Joe Biden has weakened this country at home and abroad.
01:25 Now is not the time for on the job training.
01:28 We don't need to bring in a rookie.
01:29 We don't need to bring in people without experience.
01:30 We need to bring.
01:31 Mr. Ramaswamy, you would not support an increase of funding to Ukraine.
01:40 I would not.
01:41 And I think that this is disastrous.
01:42 We are protecting against an invasion across somebody else's border when we should use
01:48 those same military resources to prevent across the invasion of our own southern border here
01:53 in the United States.
01:54 I'm glad you brought that up.
01:55 I'm going to address each of those right now.
01:56 This is the false lies of a professional politician.
01:57 There you have it.
01:58 Under your watch, you would make America less.
01:59 You have no foreign policy experience and it shows.
02:00 And you know what?
02:01 The foreign policy experience that you all have shows in the pointless wars we've gotten
02:02 into.
02:03 Let us be honest as Republicans.
02:04 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid to be on the stage.
02:05 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid to be on the stage.
02:06 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid to be on the stage.
02:07 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid to be on the stage.
02:08 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid to be on the stage.
02:36 I'm the only person on the stage who isn't bought and paid to be on the stage.
02:53 (audience cheering)
02:56 (audience applauding)