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Salon
Salon
Politics
Sophia Tesfaye

Trump fails to upstage first GOP debate

Despite drawing tens of millions of viewers — at least for some portion of his 46-minute conversation with fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson — Donald Trump's efforts to counterprogram the first Republican debate on Wednesday appears to be a dud — at least according to Trump's own post-debate reaction. 

After his low-energy interview with Carlson aired on X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump took to his social media site, Truth Social, to lash out at the network which hosted eight Republican presidential hopefuls on a debate stage in Milwaukee, taking particular aim at his longtime friend and Fox News host Sean Hannity. 

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