Last night in Miami, five Republican presidential candidates faced off in the third primary debate. All were vying to be the #2 contender behind Donald Trump, who’s been the clear frontrunner from the get-go despite skipping every debate. Dave Rubin, who attended the debate, reacts to what he saw at the event. Unfortunately (but unsurprisingly), the debate was “not the most inspiring thing ever,” he says. “My general take is that at this point in where we are at in the world, which is ... a problematic place, Donald Trump...

The Republican debate Wednesday night in Miami did nothing to change the trajectory of the party’s 2024 presidential nomination race. Former President Donald Trump, who staged a rally nearby instead of participating, remains the prohibitive front-runner. But the debate still revealed deep divides in a GOP dominated by Mr. Trump but with strong strains of old-school Republicanism. Why We Wrote This Donald Trump remains the party’s likely nominee, but last night’s Republican debate highlighted widening crosscurrents – on foreign policy, abortion bans, and Social Security.

During the third Republican presidential debate, candidates invoked the “Green New Deal” and the “Keystone pipeline” — both staples of Fox News’ misleading coverage of climate and energy issues — in response to the moderators' questions around the Venezuelan regime and the rising cost of living in the U.S. Through Fox’s relentless coverage of the Green New Deal beginning in 2019, the proposal has become synonymous on the right with socialism and often misapplied to any climate policy. Similarly, Fox has made the canceled Keystone pipeline a symbol of Biden’s...

Until Wednesday night, it had been six long weeks since Republican presidential hopefuls debated each other. In addition to a former vice president and four others who never made the debate stage dropping out, the world has changed since late September. Foreign policy properly received significant attention, as candidates explained their views on Hamas’ Nazi-esque atrocities toward innocent civilians and other issues around the globe. In the best debate yet, let’s review the performances and where candidates stand … MAGA types like Ramaswamy hate that NBC hosted the debate, but...

The Country Music Awards rallied viewers to its program, toppling the third Republican debate in ratings Wednesday night. Some 7.57 million viewers tuned in to the award show, which was an 11% increase from two years ago when it hit an all-time low in viewership. This was the most viewership since 2019. Meanwhile, the GOP debate trailed by over 2 million viewers, as it only drew 4.92 million according to Nielson ratings. REPUBLICAN DEBATE: THE FOUR BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS FROM NBC'S MIAMI MATCHUP Still, the key demographic of 18 to 49-year-old...

Five candidates vying for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination squared off in Miami, Florida, Wednesday evening for their third debate. In one of the evening’s most heated exchanges, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott pressed former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to commit to support a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks. Haley countered that she would “support anything that would pass” Congress. Once again, Republican front-runner Donald Trump skipped the debate in Miami.

One of the concepts that put Republicans on edge during live events is the leftist media promising "fact checking in real time." It always carries the potential to be even worse than their "fact checking" that isn't rushed. Here are some of the lamest, dumbest fact checks from the third presidential debate in Miami. Most came from the NBC News live blog, and the very lamest one was heavily mocked on Twitter. 1. They somehow called it "half true" when Gov. Ron DeSantis said he took action to get 700...

After Tuesday night's largely disappointing performance for Republicans in multiple states, national GOP campaign operatives are reportedly urging their slate of 2024 candidates to change their stances on abortion. According to NBC News, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) recently told 2024 US Senate hopefuls to "clearly state their opposition to a national abortion ban and their support for reasonable limits on late-term abortions" in campaign speeches and political ads.