The third Republican debate most likely didn’t change the trajectory of anyone in the race, and nothing will until it’s time for Iowa voters to make their decision.

The third Republican presidential primary debate, which took place in Miami on Wednesday night, was the best one so far. The NBC moderators may have lingered too long on foreign policy during the first hour of the debate, but their questions weren’t the biased gotcha questions that we’ve come to expect from their organization, and more importantly, the moderators didn’t let the debate get out of hand by letting the candidates speak whenever they wanted.

While former President Donald Trump proudly pledges not to reform entitlements, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has boldly called out such a pledge for what it really is: allowing Social Security and Medicare to collapse and drive our debt-to-GDP ratio to the highest point in our nation's history.

The two-hour extravaganza starring five of the six front-runners in the Republican presidential primary certainly had a high production value, but by the technical definition of the term, NBC News's revue was not actually a debate. One would assume that if the Republican National Committee, which has aggressively threatened candidates from participating in conclaves ranging from Fox News to Bob Vander Plaats's famous Thanksgiving Family Forum, decided to grant rare debate hosting honors to a network as hostile to conservatives as NBC, that NBC would be expected to force the field to actually spar against each other. Yet NBC's Lester Holt and Kristen Welker seemed less interested in the candidates differentiating themselves and more in asserting their own authority.

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel said that infighting within the GOP is “not helping” the party after presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called Republicans the “party of losers.” CNN’s Dana Bash asked McDaniel what her response was to Ramaswamy's comments at the debate, where he blamed her for the Republicans’ election losses in recent years. Ramaswamy...

The third GOP presidential debate in Miami on Wednesday focused more on policy than the previous debates, and candidates had more airtime to explain their views. Still, there were some heated moments that stood out in the two-hour program. Haley called Ramaswamy 'scum' after mentioning her daughter Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley hit back...

A slimmed-down field of GOP presidential hopefuls took the stage in Miami on Wednesday for a third primary debate. Only five people qualified for the clash: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy. The debate was again defined...

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz lauded presidential candidate Nikki Haley for her response to a debate question on abortion policy on Wednesday. Haley, the former U.N. ambassador, said a Republican president shouldn’t attempt to pass an abortion ban but should instead leave it to states. She also said Republicans don’t have near enough votes in Congress...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) used his closing statement at Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate to call for a return to values that he said changed his life. “We should turn back to faith, patriotism and individual responsibility,” he said in a closing statement. “We should stop choosing victimhood and start choosing victory. We should stop kneeling...

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy denied that citing former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley’s daughter on the GOP debate stage Wednesday was a “low blow” in a post-debate conversation with CNN’s Dana Bash. During the debate, Ramaswamy went after Haley for criticizing his use of Tiktok. “She made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her...