Elections

Third Republican Primary Debate: Live Updates

From left: Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy, and Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) at the third Republican presidential candidates debate in Miami, Fla., November 8, 2023. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
The 2024 Republican presidential candidates meet Wednesday night for their third debate, this time in Miami, hosted by NBC News. The on-stage grouping is smaller this time, with Mike Pence having dropped out since the last debate and other candidates not making the cut. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy are set to participate, while front-runner Donald Trump once again will counter-program instead. Follow along for live updates and analysis from the NR team:
Rich Lowry

Vivek seems intent tonight on convincing anyone who had any doubt that he is indeed a horse’s ass

Jeffrey Blehar

Vivek courting popularity in his own unique way: by gratuitously bringing his opponent’s teenaged daughter into it.

Luther Ray Abel

“You’re just scum.”

-Haley to Vivek after Vivek talks about Haley’s daughter

Luther Ray Abel

Dominic, only if the Pat McAfee show gets a press pass.

(Another Wisconsinite talking)

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Good on Christie for standing up for Silicon Valley against Tik Tok.

Jeffrey Blehar

Christie is an irrelevancy but when he sings the siren song of Ban TikTok I am beguiled. He made the right pitch for it, too – more effectively rhetorically than DeSantis.

Dominic Pino

Can we nominate Mike Gallagher for president instead? (Wisconsinite talking)

Noah Rothman

Christie executes the first organic hit on Donald Trump not prompted by the debate moderators by attacking the Trump administration for failing to neutralize the threat TikTok poses to the American information space.

Jim Geraghty

Chris Christie remembers the assignment, which is to persuade GOP voters that the current frontrunner does not deserve their vote and cannot get them where they want to go.

Luther Ray Abel

Mike Gallagher gets a shoutout from Hugh Hewitt during a question about whether the U.S. government should treat TikTok as foreign spyware.

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