Three key takeaways from Donald Trump’s Iowa town hall
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The former president and 2024 contender suggested he might have decided on his vice presidential pick — but didn’t name anyone.
Boycotting the presidential debate for the fifth consecutive time, former United States president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump instead attended a town hall in Iowa.
The event, streamed by Fox News, ran parallel to the fifth primary debate across town on Wednesday night where aspiring presidential contenders Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley faced off on issues such as US support for Israel and abortion laws in the country.
Trump is a frontrunner for the elections scheduled to take place in November 2024 and has repeatedly skipped presidential debates, saying that the party should focus on the general elections instead. Critics also see this as a strategy to draw viewers away from his rivals’ events.
Fox News held town halls with Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley in the past week. But Trump demanded that his town hall air at the same time as the presidential debate.
Here are three key takeaways from Trump’s town hall.
