{"id":49461,"date":"2023-12-07T05:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=49461"},"modified":"2023-12-07T05:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:36:34","slug":"republicans-do-battle-in-4th-us-presidential-primary-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=49461","title":{"rendered":"Republicans do battle in 4th US presidential primary debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US presidential hopefuls locked horns Wednesday for the fourth debate in the 2024 Republican primary, with the race narrowing to a head-to-head battle to be the main alternative to runaway frontrunner Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The former president &#8212; who is running to retake the White House despite facing 91 felony charges &#8212; maintains a historically large lead and has seen his polling go from strength to strength with each new indictment.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has skipped the debates, seeing no advantage in sharing the stage with distant rivals, and rendering them a sideshow to the battle pitting his presidential ambitions against the might of the US justice system.<\/p>\n<p>In Trump&#8217;s absence, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley was seeking to build on a surge in her polling numbers to supplant Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the most viable Trump understudy, six weeks ahead of the first nomination vote.<\/p>\n<p>She hit out at DeSantis&#8217;s faltering polling numbers and Trump&#8217;s foreign policy record on Friday, telling Fox News she was proud of creating jobs and curbing crime as South Carolina governor in the 2010s.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/161932\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US presidential hopefuls locked horns Wednesday for the fourth debate in the 2024 Republican primary, with the race narrowing to a head-to-head battle to be the main alternative to runaway frontrunner Donald Trump. The former president &#8212; who is running to retake the White House despite facing 91 felony charges &#8212; maintains a historically large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49463,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49461\/revisions\/49463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}