Watch: The First Republican Presidential Debate of 2011

It's A Free Country | May 4, 2011

On May 5th, 2011, five Republican presidential hopefuls gathered in Greenville, South Carolina for the first of an excruciating number of debates in the 2012 campaign cycle.

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