First GOP debate kicks off in Milwaukee with attacks on Biden, Trump absent from the stage

Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump opened the first Republican presidential primary debate Wednesday night with broadsides criticizing President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy and what they consider to be excessive government spending

expected to press his rivals to articulate how they would differ in style and substance from Trump, who holds a commanding early lead in the race.

, raising serious questions about whether the party will have much of a competitive primary. Yet Trump's vulnerabilities in a general election are clear, particularly after four criminal indictments that charge him with hoarding classified documents, conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and making hush money payments to a porn actor and other women.

“I’m going to have all these people screaming at me, shouting questions at me, all of which I love answering, I love doing. But it doesn’t make sense to do them so I’m taking a pass,” he said. “In fact, tonight’s Republican undercard event really shouldn’t even be called a debate, but rather an audition to be a part of President Trump’s team in his second term," he quipped.

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