Takeaways from the first 2024 Republican presidential debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : His rivals spent most of the event fielding questions about the state of the economy, abortion, public safety and the war in Ukraine.
40% : "Other than the 15 minutes when the moderators brought up Trump, if you were just kind of dropped into this debate and weren't told anything about who was missing, it was actually a reasonably conventional conservative debate about the need for smaller government and more freedom and greater border security," said William Howell, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.
37% : Pence said her position of seeking "consensus" over abortion "is the opposite of leadership."
35% : On the issue of abortion, she accused Pence of misleading voters into thinking a federal ban would be politically possible.

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