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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 ....
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 ....
p pal. when i called sean to congratulate him, he said, the credit goes to all of you, all of you out there and it does. it may be true, but it doesn t hurt to have a leader with a backbone like a ramrod. and that s sean. you know he and the entire uaw proved what i always believed. wall street didn t build america, the middle class built america and unions built the middle class! yeah! tlhat was true in the 20th century and still true today. that s why unions are more popular today than they were in decades. about six weeks ago, i went to bellevue, michigan, to join your brothers and sisters in the picket lines. it brought back a lot of memories, but what i didn t realize, it was the first time a president ever did that. it was second nature. no, i m serious, i didn t know that. it looks good on you! i tell you, i have worn this shirt a lot, man. i have no idea! i ve been involved in the uaw longer than you were alive, man! look, that day in michigan, i said th ....
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 ....
eastern. our thanks to you for let us into your home. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. thank you. i ll see you tonight. i want to mention to viewers nicolle was just reporting on the new u.s. air strikes in syria. we have more on that later but we begin with the big political news right now in america. so tonight i say welcome to the beat with ari melber, and welcome to the beat with james carville, one of our special leadoff guests as we track what is clearly a political earthquake in america. democrats surging to victories as these results poured a win for conservative ohio that s upending politics across that state and the nation today. it puts pressure on the republicans who are squaring off in tonight s debate as nicolle just mentioned. this was a moment that was supposed to go different little you re looking at live shots where they re supposed to be talking. it was a moment the republicans were hoping to discuss better news. but ri ....