With one big exception, Republican candidates for the 2024 White House race are gathering on Wednesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the first party-sanctioned primary debate.
But former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the race, will not be there.
His absence means the remaining candidates will have a harder time attracting the attention of Republican voters – and of making the case that they, not the nominee in the past two presidential elections, should be party’s standard-bearer.
Republican opinion surveys show Mr Trump is the current choice of more than half of likely primary voters, so the rest of the field will have to find ways to highlight what they believe is wrong with him – and why they are the better choice.
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