What 2024 Republican Presidential Candidates Said at Their First Debate

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -Here’s a collection of quotes from the 2024 Republican presidential candidates at their first debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS

“I’m not going to ship troops to Ukraine however I’m going to ship them to our southern border. When these drug pushers are bringing fentanyl throughout the border, that’s going to be the very last thing they do.”

TECH ENTREPRENEUR VIVEK RAMASWAMY

“The true selection we face on this main is that this: Would you like a Tremendous PAC puppet? Or would you like a patriot who speaks the reality? Would you like incremental reform, which is what you are listening to about, or would you like revolution?”

FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE

On Ramaswamy: “I’ve had sufficient, already tonight, of a man who appears like ChatGPT standing up right here. And the final particular person in one among these debates, Brett, who stood in the midst of the stage and mentioned, ‘What’s a thin man with an odd final title doing up right here?’ was Barack Obama, and I am afraid we’re coping with the identical kind of newbie standing on the stage tonight.”

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE

On Ramaswamy: “Now shouldn’t be the time for on-the-job coaching. We do not want to herald a rookie, we do not want to herald individuals with out expertise.”

On former President Donald Trump: “He requested me to place him over the Structure. And I selected the Structure. And I at all times will. I had no proper to overturn the election.”

FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR NIKKI HALEY

“We now have to take a look at the truth that three quarters of People do not need a rematch between Trump and Biden. And now we have to face the truth that Trump is probably the most disliked politician in America. We will not win a basic election that means.”

US SENATOR TIM SCOTT OF SOUTH CAROLINA

“The one means we modify training on this nation is to interrupt the backs of the academics unions. They’re standing within the door home of our youngsters, locking them into failing faculties and locking them out of the best future they’ll have.”

FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON

On Trump: “We now have to have respect for our justice system and the rule of legislation, and it begins on the prime with the president of america.”

NORTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR DOUG BURGUM

“I feel I took it a bit of too actually after they mentioned, ‘Go to Milwaukee and break a leg.'”

(Reporting By Josephine Walker in Washington; Enhancing by Ross Colvin and Andy Sullivan)

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