Fifty-two minutes is the time it took for the “absent elephant in the room” to appear on the scene, the former president Donald Trumpin the first debate of the Republican pre-candidates for the presidency, which he did not want to attend.
And fifteen minutes, of the two hours that it has lasted, is the total time that the eight candidates for the White House have dedicated to talking about the subject, in the event organized by Fox News in the city of Milwaukee (Wisconsin).
But they have had, in one way or another, to get wet, saying whether or not they would support a Trump convicted of any of the multiple crimes that he is accused of. And only two out of eight –Chris Christie y Asa Hutchinson- They have made it clear that they would not.
The possible excessive prominence of Trump in the appointment was one of the unknowns of the night and finally the “absent elephant in the room”, as the presenters have called the former president Bret Baier y Martha MacCallumhas passed glancingly.
Specially for Ron DeSantis, second favorite in the polls. Before an audience of Republican supporters gathered at Fiserv Stadium, home of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, he has chosen to throw balls out.