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Why Haley and Ramaswamy dominated Republican debate

The Republican presidential debate Wednesday night was surprisingly riveting – a chance to assess Donald Trump’s opponents for the 2024 nomination without the distraction of the former president’s outsize persona.

Mr. Trump was absent by choice, and remains the  for the GOP nomination. What’s more, the former president chose Thursday evening on which to face arraignment in Atlanta for , an obvious effort to eclipse postmortems on the debate and keep the focus on him.

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