Key takeaways:
- Five Republican presidential candidates took the stage in Miami Wednesday night for the third GOP primary debate.
- The candidates were asked to outline the GOP’s “path forward” on abortion rights, but the five could not agree on how the party should handle the complicated issue.
- The issue of abortion rights is a complex one, and the Republican party has yet to find a successful way to address it.
Five Republican presidential candidates took the stage in Miami Wednesday night for the third GOP primary debate, but the front-runner, Donald Trump, was absent. Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” called businessman Vivek Ramaswamy the “MVP” of the debate, saying he “makes everyone else look better than they were ever going to look.”
The candidates were asked to outline the GOP’s “path forward” on abortion rights, but the five could not agree on how the party should handle the complicated issue. O’Donnell went on to call Ramaswamy “the most hateable character who’s ever had a role in presidential debating in either party.”
The debate comes as Republicans and abortion-rights opponents lost elections across the country Tuesday, in large part because the party still hasn’t found a successful message or policy on abortion rights. O’Donnell referred to the debate as “the debate for in case Trump chokes on a cheeseburger.”
The debate highlighted the ongoing squabbles within the Republican party over the issue of abortion rights. Despite the candidates’ efforts to address the issue, none of them broke any new ground in finding a compelling answer to the political problem.
The issue of abortion rights is a complex one, and the Republican party has yet to find a successful way to address it. Wednesday night’s debate showed that the party is still struggling to find a unified stance on the issue, and that the candidates have yet to find a solution that will resonate with voters.
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