Fox News Will Host The First 2024 Republican Primary Debate In August

The first debate among the 2024 Republican presidential candidates will be hosted by Fox News in August, said RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in an interview on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning. The debate will be held in Milwaukee, to coincide with the Republican National Committee’s summer meetings in the city, but a specific time and date have not yet been announced. Milwaukee is also set to host the Republican National Convention in 2024. Moderators for the debate will also be named later.

“We’re also going to partner with some pretty exciting partners,” McDaniel said, “for the first time ever we’re going to livestream on Rumble,” the video hosting platform that is popular among conservatives. “We’re getting away from Big Tech, YouTube’s owned by Google
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“This is a big step for our party and country, as Republican leaders we must continue to hold Big Tech accountable for their biases and silencing of conservatives,” McDaniel said in a statement released by Rumble. “People deserve a fair, unbiased platform and that’s exactly what this partnership will provide – an opportunity for voters to watch the next President of the United States on the Republican debate stage on Rumble.”

So far, the only announced Republican candidates for 2024 are former President Donald Trump, former Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. The RNC has said it will ask candidates to sign a loyalty pledge, agreeing to support whoever becomes the Republican nominee. Asked earlier this year if he’d make such an agreement, Donald Trump said there were people he “wouldn’t be very happy about endorsing.”