6 of 8 GOP Candidates Vow to Back Trump as Party's Nominee Even If He Is Convicted

We feature highlights on climate change, foreign policy and Trump from the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 race and speak with John Nichols, The Nation's national affairs correspondent. We also look at how former president and front-runner Donald Trump refused to attend the debate ahead of turning himself in at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, to face racketeering charges for running a criminal enterprise with 18 co-defendants to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. The debate felt like an argument at the kids' table on Thanksgiving rather than a classic political debate," says Nichols, who says candidates were attempting to become Trump's vice president or project themselves as leaders in a post-Trump Republican Party.