The latest debate in the race for a Republican presidential candidate. Mark J. Terrill / AP
The 2024 US election
Analysis: The candidates' tussle favors Donald Trump
It was once again a political debate without the real protagonist in place. Without a still-boycotting Donald Trump, the debate did not rise either, the newspaper columnists write.
Politico compares Wednesday night's debate, between the seven candidates, as a battle between side characters.
"[Trump's] absence from the scene hurts them and reduces the primary debates to discussions at the children's table," writes the online newspaper.
Several of the debaters, Politico further emphasizes, also acted as if they were sitting at one.
New York Times columnist, William Safire, wrote a column with the headline "The seven dwarfs", which Dagens Nyheter's Karin Eriksson thought was appropriate.
"The truth is that no one can win against Trump, as long as everyone tries. The field is too wide for anyone to even have a small chance of winning the fight," she writes.
Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. Mark J. Terrill / AP
Candidates went harder on Trump in 'unruly' debate
The night's primary debate between seven of the Republican presidential candidates was "chaotic" and "unruly", writes the New York Times. The participants shouted and interrupted each other as they debated China, the economy, border controls and the absent front-runner Donald Trump, reports The Hill.
However, the viewers did not become much wiser about which direction the Republican Party plans to take in 2024, writes The Guardian.
The debate was the second between the candidates and this time they came much harder on Trump, who also did not participate in the first. However, the jokes were even worse than usual, writes The Guardian in its review of the highlights.
- You are not here tonight because you are afraid to stand on stage and defend your past. You duck this stuff. […] If you keep going, no one here will call you Donald Trump anymore. We will call you Donald Duck, said Chris Christie.
Chutkan, stock image at Trump TT
Trump's legal affairs
The judge says no to Trump - refuses to step down
Donald Trump's lawyers have demanded that Judge Tanya Chutkan drop one of the upcoming trials against the ex-president. But Chutkan dismisses all claims of having been biased and now declares that she does not intend to recuse herself from the case, several media reports.
According to Trump's lawyers, Chutkan is said to have said, among other things, that the storming of Congress was inspired by "blind loyalty to a person who, by the way, remains free to this day."
"The court has never taken the position that the defense (Trump's lawyers) attributes to it: that Trump, the former president, should be prosecuted and imprisoned," writes Chutkin in a 20-page filing in which she denies the allegations.
The case concerns Trump's attempt to have the results of the 2020 presidential election annulled, and the crimes are described, among other things, as conspiracy, TT writes.
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