And then there were four. Wednesday evening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, only four GOP challengers to former President Donald Trump remain on the debate stage, as each of them desperately seeks a moment to change the trajectory of the race, while, for now, it seems all but certain that Trump is mere weeks away from wiping them all out.
At the University of Alabama, at 8:00 p.m. ET, the remaining four Trump challengers–former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis–will debate in a second tier of the race that increasingly looks like a race for second place among them.
Haley has overtaken DeSantis in a clear and convincing way for second place for now across the board, and Christie keeps lighting them all up saying none of them is running against Trump but instead that they’re running against each other.
If there was any indication of just how sad these remaining Trump challengers are, it’s that Trump clearly no longers considers any of them a threat. When the previous three debates happened earlier this cycle, Trump held clearly-calculated counter-programming events–an…
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