Vying for votes, attention: Candidates try to offer Trump GOP alternative

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis participates in the first debate of the GOP primary season, hosted by FOX News, at the Fiserv Forum on Wednesday in Milwaukee. (WIN MCNAMEE/Getty Images/TNS)
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis participates in the first debate of the GOP primary season, hosted by FOX News, at the Fiserv Forum on Wednesday in Milwaukee. (WIN MCNAMEE/Getty Images/TNS)

MILWAUKEE — Nearly all of the Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump said they would support the former president if he is the party’s nomi…