Donald Trump's rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination hoped the debate stage in Miami would put them at the center of the political universe Wednesday.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy demanded Wednesday that the U.S. end its support for Ukraine, calling the Eastern European country a bad ally that is losing its war with Russia.

In the first Republican presidential debate since Hamas attacked Israel, all five GOP candidates on the debate stage Wednesday night said they would support Israel fully in its fight to wipe out the terrorist group.

Republican presidential candidates on Wednesday pledged support for Israel and vowed to root out antisemitism in the U.S., saying they will cancel visas of foreign students who supported Hamas and punish colleges that allow hate to fester.

On Tuesday night, the ruby red dominion of Ohio became the seventh state in a row to codify abortion access in local law. In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the abortion issue back to the states, voters have made clear that however opposed they are, in theory, to unfettered abortion, they do not trust pro-life Republicans with one iota of control over the issue, turning the previously dormant matter into a political winner for Democrats.

After Tuesday’s election, abortion became a popular topic in conversations. Many claimed that the GOP needs a new strategy on abortion because there’s been a failure to connect with voters on the issue, according to the results of recent referendums around the country. Others wondered if Republicans should avoid the topic or change their approach. If that was the strategy, Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t get the memo. Furthermore, he was the only candidate who proudly offered the male perspective on why protecting the lives of the unborn is so essential.

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.