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The Night Republican Candidates Got Serious
Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott face off at the third Republican presidential primary debate in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Finally, a debate of substance—with very little mention of Trump.
By Peter Savodnik
11.09.23 — U.S. Politics
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The political pros will tell you that global issues have little if any bearing on American elections. The Soviet Union, the Soviet collapse, NATO, Afghanistan—none of that mattered that much when it came to picking our commander in chief.

But last night, at the GOP presidential debate in Miami, the outside world felt like the only thing that mattered. On…

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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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