What Questions Should Be Asked at the First G.O.P. Debate? Tell Us What You Think.

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The Run-Up to the 2024 Election

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• At the Iowa State Fair, the Republican front-runner signaled that he was looking past his leading G.O.P. rival, Ron DeSantis. But Trump’s campaign team took every opportunity to needle the Florida governor.

• Trump’s legal problems aren’t just piling up — his bills are, too. And with his complex political orbit spending more than it is taking in, questions are surfacing about whether he will eventually need to dip into his own fortune to pay for his lawyers, his 2024 campaign or both.

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• With the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, what had been a relatively contained political scandal could now go on for months just as the president is gearing up for his re-election campaign.

• Vice President Kamala Harris has taken on a forceful new role in the 2024 campaign, sparring with DeSantis and defending abortion rights in Iowa.

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• Ron DeSantis: The Florida governor was hoping to have the stage to himself at the Iowa State Fair, but Trump and his supporters made that hard to achieve.

• Tim Scott: After other G.O.P. candidates moved on, the senator from South Carolina had the Iowa State Fair largely to himself.

• Nikki Haley: The former South Carolina governor is campaigning at a grueling pace. But polling suggests that so far, Republican voters aren’t flocking to her.

• Mike Pence: The former vice president, who had appeared at risk of missing out on the first Republican debate, reached the required donor threshold to qualify for the event.

• Debate Questions: Republican candidates will face off in the first G.O.P. debate on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee. Let us know what you’d like them to have to address.