“The stage was more intimate. The voices were less restrained. And the candidates wound up again sniping more with each other than making the case against the front-runner who still wasn’t there,” ABC News reports.
“The third Republican primary debate, on Wednesday night in Miami, was as muddled as the race for president that it’s supposed to be seeking to clarify, with nearly half a dozen candidates running against a rival so popular he felt no reason to show up.”
“Donald Trump took a bit more incoming fire, but few of those attacks seemed to stick in the moment, much less in the broader context of the campaign.”
Washington Post: There are two dueling GOP primaries. One barely matters.
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