Trump won': 3rd GOP debate unlikely to change dynamic of primary race

The third debate of the Republican presidential primary took place on Wednesday evening in Miami. Like the first two, it did little to suggest that frontrunner Donald Trump — who once again stayed away from the event — has much to worry about. While the five candidates onstage engaged in some substantive discussion, they did little to make the case that they deserved the nomination over the former president.

A series of nasty exchanges — which culminated in former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley branding entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as “just scum” after he referenced her daughter’s supposed use of TikTok — only deepened the sense that viewers were watching an undercard affair.