The former president met auto industry workers in the battleground state of Michigan instead.
The second Republican primary debate took place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Simi Valley today.
Trump’s no-show prompted former New Jersey governor Chris Christie – the ex-president’s biggest antagonist among the candidates – to accuse the 77-year-old tycoon of hiding “behind the walls of his golf clubs”. More than 3,000km away in Michigan, Trump was attempting to boost his blue-collar credentials and attack the pro-worker reputation cultivated by President Joe Biden, who visited striking union members in the state on Tuesday.
While Ramaswamy voiced sympathy with the workers, Scott made clear his priority was immigration rather than the labor dispute. “He owes it to you, to defend his record, where they added US$7.8 trillion to the debt that set the stage for the inflation that we have.” But there was genuine division over the war in Ukraine, with Christie, Scott and Pence defending US support for Kyiv, in contrast with scepticism from DeSantis and Ramaswamy.
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