A second Republican primary debate will take place Wednesday night with former president and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump once again choosing to skip the debate.
Here’s a look at how to watch the debate and which seven candidates qualified this time around.
How to Watch Republican Debate: The second Republican debate will air on Fox Business, a unit of Fox Corporation FOXFOXA. This marks the second consecutive debate for which Fox holds the media rights, as the first GOP debate aired on its Fox News station.
A Spanish language version of the broadcast will air on Univision.
The debate will also stream on Rumble Inc RUM and Fox Nation.
Coverage starts at 8:30 p.m. ET, with the debate scheduled to run from 9 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET.
Related Link: 2024 GOP Debate Recap: Trump Insults, Barbs And More
The Seven Candidates: With Trump choosing to sit out the debate once again, seven of his competitors will take the stage without him.
The seven candidates are as follows, with their current support from Republican voters in a Morning Consult poll, and their speaking time in the last debate:
- Ron DeSantis: 15%, 10:22
- Chris Christie: 2%, 11:22
- Mike Pence: 6%, 12:37
- Vivek Ramaswamy: 9%, 11:47
- Nikki Haley: 7%, 8:41
- Tim Scott: 2%, 8:15
- Doug Burgum: 1%, 8:00
To qualify for the second debate, candidates had to have 3% support among Republican voters in two national polls or 3% support in one national poll and two state polls of early voting states (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina).
Candidates also had to have at least 50,000 unique donors to their campaign and sign a Republican National Committee pledge to support the party’s eventual nominee.
Missing out on the second debate is Asa Hutchinson, who qualified for the first debate but has around 1% of support from voters in the latest Morning Consult poll and had the least amount of speaking time in the previous debate.
What to Watch: A poll of Republican voters by Morning Consult saw DeSantis as the winner in the first GOP debate, narrowly beating Ramaswamy with scores of 29% to 26%, respectively. Haley finished in third place among the candidates chosen as the winner of the debate.
The key topics discussed in the first debate by length of time were abortion, Donald Trump, presidential credentials, education and border security.
One topic that wasn’t discussed at the first debate was cryptocurrency, with many voters wanting to hear more about where candidates stand on Bitcoin BTC/USD and CBDCs.
Despite their absence from the debate, President Joe Biden and Trump were the two figures most criticized during the first Republican debate, and are likely to be heavily discussed again in the upcoming debate on Wednesday.
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