The fourth GOP debate – and first since a CNBC session left candidates grumbling about the journalists asking questions – takes place Tuesday night in Milwaukee.
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Hosted by Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal, the debate will start at 8pm on Tuesday (1300 AEDT Wednesday) from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
9 p.m. ET: The primetime debate includes the following candidates: Donald J. Trump, Ben Carson, Senator Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Senator Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Gov. John R. Kasich, and Senator Rand Paul.
It looks like the Republican presidential debate did boffo business for the Fox Business Network. The viewership is dropping for their debates, as the momentum continues to go in the wrong direction for the Republican Party as the country heads into 2016. The little-known FBN is in roughly three-quarters of the nation’s television homes, often high up on the channel dial, and has never reached as many as 1 million viewers for any of its telecasts.
Main debate moderators Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto promise they’ll offer fair questions of substance and no celebrity posturing.
There were no onstage complaints on Tuesday.
“You want to let it breathe and make sure no one is rushed but at the same time no one is showboating”, Cavuto said.
“I don’t think you can be prepared for a comment that may come from one of the candidates that you weren’t expecting”.
Speaking on Morning Joe, Huckabee said being moved to the undercard debate was “obviously not something I’m excited about”, but conceded that “rules are rules”.
The focus of the debate is on jobs, taxes and the health of the economy as well as domestic and global policy issues, but the latest scandals in the candidates’ campaigns will also likely crop up. Then he got serious. For a few people, that meant a duller affair -the NY Daily News called it a “snoozefest”. They are also promising the candidates more time for their responses.
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