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      The 2023 Republican primary candidates stand on stage before a debate.

      Highlights From Hell, AKA the GOP Debate

      It was the spiritual equivalent of a World’s Ugliest Dog contest, each contestant was more unappealing than the next—with the exception of the biggest ugly dog of them all, who had bones to pick elsewhere.

      Richard Eskow
      Aug 27, 2023

      The 2024 Republican primary officially kicked off on August 23—my birthday—with its first presidential debate. It’s been comical to see headlines about the debate’s “biggest highlights.” Biggest highlights? Were there that many to choose from? You could make a more appealing “highlight” reel from a dentist’s video of the bacteria in your gums.

      Pundits might describe the debate as a circus. That’s unfair to the Big Top. It wasn’t a circus. It was the spiritual equivalent of a World’s Ugliest Dog contest. Each contestant was more unappealing than the next—with the exception of the biggest ugly dog of them all, who had bones to pick elsewhere.

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      Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks before a meeting of the Republican Party of Orange County

      Asa Hutchinson, Enemy of Abortion Rights Who Kicked Thousands Off Medicaid, Announces White House Bid

      "He's just another extremist joining the ever-expanding race for the MAGA base."

      Jake Johnson
      Apr 02, 2023

      Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Sunday that he will run for the White House in 2024, casting himself as a "different" kind of Republican than Donald Trump and his most fervent GOP allies.

      But Hutchinson's record as governor of Arkansas—a post he held from 2015 to 2023—indicates that his policy positions on abortion rights, immigration, federal spending, healthcare, and other key issues closely align with those of extremist Republicans.

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