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Live from Simi Valley: A Hot Mess of a Debate
Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy onstage Wednesday night. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
With Trump running away with the primary and thousands of miles from the stage, seven candidates tried to break through.
By Peter Savodnik
09.28.23 — U.S. Politics
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library sits on a stately, sun-dappled perch enveloped by green hills and gorgeous vistas. It is a magical place that evokes the fortieth president’s boundless optimism and feels a lot like the movie sets where he made his name. 

The knock against the Republican debate that took place here last night i…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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