The 81st Republican Presidential Debate on NewsNation: Donors, Attendance, and Top Ten Tensors (and More)
They had to have at least 80,000 unique donors — up from 70,000 for the third debate in November — and to reach 6 percent support either in two national polls or in one national poll and polls of two states with early primaries.
He did the first three, so he is skipping the fourth. (Though he easily meets the polling and donor criteria, he technically hasn’t qualified because he has refused to sign a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee.)
The Republican presidential debate will be in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Wednesday with just four candidates. There are rising tensions among the candidates, and the continuing absence of Donald J. Trump, that will put renewed onus on the moderators to bring order and relevancy to the broadcast.
The debate will be broadcasted on NewsNation platforms, including its app and website. The debate will be broadcast from midnight to 2 a.m. Eastern on Newsnation, with Chris Cuomo anchoring two hours before and two hours after the event.
It will be broadcast on the CW in the Eastern and Central time zones, with a slot usually filled by shows like “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” In the Mountain and Pacific time zones, it will be broadcast on local CW affiliates on a delay: 7 to 9 p.m. Mountain time and 8 to 10 p.m. Pacific time.
The Fourth G.O.P. Debate Insults Fly as Candidates Clash With Time Running Out Before Iowa, Revisited
She challenged Mr. Trump about how he has treated women in the past, and he attacked her. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” he said the day after the debate.
At a July gathering of Turning Point Action, a pro-Trump grass-roots group, several thousand activists booed when Ms. Kelly suggested that the Republican nominating contest was probably a two-candidate race between Mr. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. She quickly relented, saying that Mr. Trump’s indictments had only burnished his stock with G.O.P. voters.
Ms. Vargas is best known for her tenure at ABC News, where she hosted the newsmagazine show “20/20” for 15 years and was a co-anchor of “World News Tonight.” She also frequently appeared on “Good Morning America.”
Joining her will be Elizabeth Vargas of NewsNation, the upstart cable network hosting the debate, and Eliana Johnson, the editor in chief of The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news site.
Ms. Johnson is the latest in a series of conservative media figures who have been involved in moderating primary debates organized by the Republican National Committee.
She became the editor of The FreeBeacon, a conservative website funded by a hedge fund billionaire, in a somewhat surprising move in 2019. She was a White House correspondent and a national political reporter.
Why Trump didn’t tell the world his home after he was born: The role of Megyn Kelly, the Fox News host who confronted Mr. Trump in 2019
In 2019, when Mr. Trump was president, Ms. Johnson wrote an article for Politico about his “truly bizarre” visit, with President Emmanuel Macron of France, to Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home. She reported that Mr. Trump didn’t understand why Washington had not named the home after himself.
Ms. Kelly will moderate again, but without Trump, who has skipped all four of the party’s primary debates.
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host who confronted Mr.Trump in a debate that helped propel him onto the Republican ticket, will be part of the task.