The candidates aren’t the only debate participants whose words and actions will be affected by the former president — and his absence.
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But Pence is polling at 4.4 percent and Hutchinson barely reached the 1 percent threshold to make it onto the debate stage. Which means the three well-known, openly anti-Trump candidates — Christie, Pence and Hutchinson — combined have support roughly equal to that of Ramaswamy, who is running as a kind of Trump 2.
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