‘A Courage Issue’: GOP Field Expected to Lay into Absentee Trump in Second Primary Debate

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Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, September 20, 2023.

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Zach Kessel here, filling in for Brittany Bernstein, who is out this week.

After dancing around “the elephant not in the room” during the first GOP primary debate in August, expect the rest of the GOP field to step up their attacks on former president Trump during tonight’s debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif.

Zach Kessel

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Zach Kessel

Zach Kessel was a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism and a recent graduate of Northwestern University.

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