debate, which was held tonight in downtown miami florida. the debate just wrapped up seconds ago, after two hours onstage. you can see there, the debate hall, some of the candidates, the five candidates who participated, still milling there. people in the audience the milling there. just finishing up within the last few moments. i am rachel maddow, here at msnbc headquarters, with my colleagues, michael wallace, joy reid, stephanie ruhle and lawrence o donnell. tonight s debate in miami was a home game for one of the candidates, ron desantis. of course, it s the governor of florida, a heck of a lot good that is doing him. a poll out just before the debate shows governor desantis losing his home state, at least as far as the polling says by 39 points against his constituent, florida man and former president donald trump, who was not at tonight s debate, just like the first two debates, former president donald trump was a no-show again tonight. he was about ten miles away, hold
of tonight s republican presidential debate, a debate that, again, was a republican debate but the candidates themselves came back to the topic of republicans losing. they kept bringing it up themselves, unprompted. we ve lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. i m sick of republicans losing. look, people they are cheering for. losing in the republican party. we ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. and yes, the man who has been the leader of the republican party in the period in question, through all of that losing, this is pretty much as closed as anyone got to outrun out criticizing former president and current presidential front runner donald trump, tonight. i can talk about president trump. i can tell you that i think he was the right president at the right time. i don t think he s right president now. i think that he put us eight trillion dollars in debt, and our kids are never gonna forgive us for
everybody all right? everybody make it through okay? yes we did. good evening, welcome to our special coverage of the third republican presidential primary debate which was held today in downtown miami, florida. the debate just wrapped up seconds ago, after two hours onstage. you can see there, the debate hall, some of the candidates, the five candidates who participated, still milling there. people in the audience the milling there. just finishing up within the last few moments. i am rachel maddow, here at msnbc headquarters, with my colleagues, michael wallace, joy reid, stephanie ruhle and lawrence o donnell. tonight s debate in miami was a home game for one of the candidates, ron desantis. of course, it s the governor of florida, a heck of a lot good that is doing him. a poll out just before the debate shows governor desantis losing his home state, at least as far as the polling says by 39 points against his constituent, florida man and former president donald trump, who