Candidates refused to name a fellow competitor on the debate stage whom they would have step out of the race.
Republican presidential candidates participating in Wednesday night’s debate broadly refused to name a fellow competitor onstage to “vote off the island” and leave the race — a small act of solidarity within a group that spent the evening sparring over its members’ political platforms and, at times, getting personal.
Given 15 seconds near the end of the debate inside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to come up with their response, some candidates quickly began to reach for their markers.“Are you serious?” former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley asked.“With all due respect … we’re happy to debate. I think that that’s disrespectful to my fellow competitors,” added DeSantis, who is running a distant second in the polls behind Trump.
“I’m not doing it,” subsequently said former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who at first was seen grabbing his marker. With candidates refusing to step out of the GOP primary race, there are concerns that voting power could be siphoned away from a candidate who could be a viable alternative to Trump. But taken together, the seven candidates on the debate stage are still far behind the front-runner.
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