December 7, 2023: What the final debate of 2023 told us
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It was the last scheduled GOP debate before primary ballots start being
cast. But did it change anything? Last night in Tuscaloosa, Chris
Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy traded barbs,
unspooled occasionally outlandish talking points and did their best to
recapture the narrative in the final month of the primary race. Yet it
was the candidate not in attendance — Donald Trump — who once again
loomed large, defining the stage even while absent. And what we saw
seems unlikely to disrupt the fundamentals of the campaign. National
politics correspondent Adam Wren joins Playbook deputy editor Zack
Stanton to unpack it all.
December 7, 2023: What the final debate of 2023 told us