The first Republican presidential debate is a few weeks out, and it will serve as an important marker for the 2024 race — where campaigns can sink or swim.
In recent history, several candidates have faltered under the harsh spotlight of the primary debate stage. Here is a look at three instances in primary debates where a poor performance or moment cost them in the primary contest.Then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry had stumbled in the early debates of the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, but the death knell to his campaign came in a debate in November 2011.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney offered up the Environmental Protection Agency as the third agency to which Perry jokingly said was the third agency, but when asked by a moderator if that was the third agency, Perry conceded it was not.Perry's poll numbers, which had been in decline for nearly two months, further tanked, and he dropped out of the primary in January 2012, days ahead of the South Carolina primary.
"Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing," Rubio said. Harris had come off a strong performance in an exchange with former Vice President Joe Biden in a debate in June, where she called out Biden on busing policy in the 1970s. In the July 31 debate, however, Harris would be the one caught flat-footed in an exchange with then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard .
“She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California, and she fought to keep cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
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