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Donald Trump Will Trump Regret Skipping The GOP Debates? A FiveThirtyEight Chat Aug. 30, 2023, at 6:00 AM Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. maya (Maya Sweedler, senior editor): The first Republican debate last Wednesday featured eight candidates — none of whom was the front-runner. Former President Donald Trump…

2024 Election What Are Trump’s Chances Of Winning The GOP Primary? We did some back-of-the-envelope math. By G. Elliott Morris Aug. 29, 2023, at 2:57 PM ABC News Photo Illustration / REBA SALDANHA Is the 2024 Republican presidential primary already over? If you just look at the polls, you’d be forgiven for thinking so. Consider…

Student Debt How Restarting Student Loan Payments Could Change Millions of Lives — And The Economy By Monica Potts Aug. 28, 2023, at 6:00 AM ABC News Photo Illustration When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan in…

Nikki Haley has been in the race for longer than anyone else on the stage but hasn’t had a breakout moment yet. She was clearly aiming to change that tonight, and she did have one of the most memorable back-and-forths of the night when she took Ramaswamy to task over his lack of foreign policy…

Wednesday is the biggest day of the 2024 presidential race so far. Eight candidates will take the stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the first Republican primary debate. Chances are good that something will happen tonight that will be touted as a potential game-changer in the race: a viral moment, a particularly withering attack line, an…

Galen Druke quizzes reporters from three early primary states to see how well they know the 2024 Republican candidates and whether they can tell the candidates apart on key issues.

2024 Republican Debates Smaller, Better — And Weirder? How We’d Change Who Makes The GOP Debate Stage. A FiveThirtyEight Chat Aug. 22, 2023, at 6:00 AM ABC News Photo illustration Welcome to (a version of) FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. maya (Maya Sweedler, senior editor): Well, my friends, the Republican…

2024 Republican Debates At Least 8 Republicans Have Made The First Debate. Could 3 More Join Them? By Geoffrey Skelley Aug. 21, 2023, at 10:12 PM The stage for the first Republican presidential debate is almost set, with three additional candidates claiming they’ve hit polling and donor thresholds and one — former President Donald Trump,…

Climate Change How Americans Are Reacting To The Maui Wildfires And how it underscores the partisan divide on climate change. By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Aug. 21, 2023, at 6:00 AM ABC News Photo Illustration Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. Five days after a brush fire ignited on the Hawaiian island of Maui, quickly spreading…