Sobriety is the word of the evening for the third Republican Presidential debate, with five candidates on stage and two frontrunners fending off attacks.
The third Republican debate began with a question about the man who refuses to be there. Why you, asked NBC’s Lester Holt, and not Donald Trump? Instead, the five candidates ticked off the problems facing the country, and only briefly dealt with the former president who leads them all.PRESS PANIC: TOUGHER COVERAGE OF BIDEN AS HE INCREASINGLY TRAILS TRUMP Ron DeSantis said Trump should explain why he ran up the debt and didn’t drain the swamp.
DeSantis called the $60 billion proposed by President Biden 'totally ridiculous' and declared, 'We need to bring this war to an end.' Only Ramaswamy was flatly opposed, saying Ukraine 'is not a paragon of democracy,' and pivoting to attacking Haley, a former U.N. ambassador. She shot back that the leaders of Russia and China were 'salivating' at the idea of Ramaswamy becoming president. There were sharp exchanges on the subject of the Chinese-owned Tik Tok.
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