With voting still months away, the most important part of the first Republican presidential debate might have been the dispute between former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
That’s not because either of them left Milwaukee as the likeliest Republican nominee, though both of them saw more buzz associated with their campaigns after Wednesday night.Haley and Ramaswamy occupy opposite poles of the GOP on issues like foreign policy — and how much the party has been permanently reshaped by former President Donald Trump or will revert to its pre-Trump form whenever he passes from the scene.
The newcomer to the debate stage concluded with a catchphrase with a long political pedigree, but most recently associated with Trump. “I think that we have to put the interests of Americans first,” Ramaswamy said. “Secure our own border instead of somebody else's. And the reality is this is also how we project strength and making America strong at home.”
The two sparred more about Russian President Vladimir Putin and China before Haley said, “You have no foreign policy experience and it shows.” Haley speaks often of a generational change in Republican leadership. She is 51 and was elected South Carolina governor before her 40th birthday, while Trump at 77 is old enough to take one of her proposed competency tests.
“As president of the United States, your first obligation is to defend our country and its people,” DeSantis said. “And that means you're sending all this money, but you're not doing what we need to do to secure our own border.”Ramaswamy has come under fire for flip-flopping on Trump and many issues, while Haley and Pence both have better resumes for the White House because of jobs they received from the former president.
Other prominent voices from this perspective include Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host on whose show Trump appeared rather than participate in the debate, and Sen. J.D. Vance . The Heritage Foundation took steps in this direction with an ad hitting Ukraine aid during the debate preshow.
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