Eight Republican contenders for president faced off Wednesday in the first primary debate of the 2024 race, exchanging barbs that were at times personal, contentious, and misleading.
The candidates sparred over everything from abortion to transgender rights, with some relying on their government experience and others on their outsider perspective as they made their case to voters.Here are some of the debate claims that stretched the facts.Christie’s rosy picture of his economic record as governor of New Jersey is not quite the whole story.
Previous fact-checks of Christie’s economic record as governor have consistently found that Christie overstates how well he performed in this area, although it is the case that he inherited a particularly messy budget situation when he was elected in 2009. One study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity claimed each household has had its spending power reduced by $10,000 as a result of the Biden regulatory agenda since Biden took office.A Heritage Foundation report from December shows that the average household has lost roughly $7,100 from the combination of inflation and high-interest rates – the two economic problems for which Republicans most frequently blame Biden.
At the beginning of 2020, the debt had risen by more than $3 trillion; roughly half of the spending Haley criticized came in the remaining months of that year when Congress passed more than $3 trillion in stimulus bills.Pence positioned himself to DeSantis’s right on abortion after the Florida governor touted his signing of a six-week abortion ban in Florida.
In one of the most memorable exchanges of the evening, Haley and Ramaswamy sparred over whether American tax dollars should continue to flow to Ukraine.
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