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| Republican presidential debate: CNN hosts Trump, Bush and more – live | Republican presidential debate: CNN hosts Trump, Bush and more – live |
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| Jindal is asked why he has attacked Trump. Why did he attack his fellow Republican? | |
| Because Trump is not a Republican or a conservative, Jindal says. He seems determined to come across as energetic and forceful. | |
| 11.26pm BST23:26 | |
| Host Jake Tapper says he wants to have a real debate about policy. (Has he been following this campaign at all?) | |
| Pataki introduces himself first, recalling Reagan’s “tremendous smile” and his optimism. That type of leadership is why he is running for president, he says. | |
| Santorum says he led the fights against partial-birth abortion and welfare, and worked for sanctions against Iran. He says he has a disabled daughter, six other children and a wife who is the love of his life. | |
| Jindal says he doesn’t have a famous last name or a reality TV show. He says he doesn’t want the American dream to turn into the European nightmare. | |
| Graham starts with a joke about the fact that there is an audience for the kids’ table debate this time. He says he is running for president to destroy radical Islam. He says he is most qualified to be commander-in-chief because of his three decades of military experience. | |
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| About your moderators: | |
| Related: Hugh Hewitt: is he Donald Trump's arch nemesis – or the antidote to Fox News? | |
| Preps for @DanaBashCNN and @hughhewitt #CNNDebate pic.twitter.com/50LBwvRrzB | |
| 11.21pm BST23:21 | |
| Actor and singer Natalie Hill performs the national anthem. Santorum sings along, while the other three stand silently with their hands on their hearts. | |
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| It's kids' table time! | |
| The debate begins, in front of the striking and rather surreal backdrop of Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One airplane. | |
| Graham, Jindal, Santorum and Pataki take their places. | |
| Updated at 11.28pm BST | |
| 11.12pm BST23:12 | |
| Just a reminder that the four debaters in this slightly humiliating pre-debate, which is just about to begin, are: | |
| The event is being hosted by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. | |
| You can watch the debate live online here. | |
| 11.09pm BST23:09 | |
| Ben Jacobs | |
| Guardian US political reporter Ben Jacobs, who will be hanging out with a pseudo-focus group of voters at a bar in New Hampshire tonight, takes a look at the early debate field. Who will be the standout among all four early candidates? | |
| With only a handful of candidates on stage in the undercard debate tonight, there will be plenty of opportunity for the second-tier politicians to shine. | |
| They will have one hour and 40 minutes to speak directly to the American people – or at least those watching – with minimal interruption ... and without the presence of Donald Trump. | |
| In the last debate, Carly Fiorina used the pre-debate debate opportunity to shine and catapult herself into prime time tonight. | |
| The best bet to make a similar kind of leap tonight at the so-called “kids’ table” is the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham – at least as we see it out of here in the early voting state of New Hampshire. | |
| The ardent hawk has a reputation for not taking himself too seriously – at least as far as elected officials in Washington go – so expect some one-liners. | |
| Last time around, he was stilted ... almost as if he had been coached to be less funny. Tonight, Graham gets the chance to make up for that, albeit on a far less crowded stage. | |
| Related: Carly Fiorina: how to be the only woman on the GOP debate stage | |
| Updated at 11.10pm BST | |
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| Jeb Lund | |
| Guardian US columnist Jeb Lund writes in from Tampa, Florida: | |
| So guys, it’s just you and your honey, Lady Liberty. | |
| The setting is perfect: Simi Valley. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. But then electile dysfunction happens again. | |
| Who’s George Pataki? And Jindal is here? That guy’s polling lower than a boozed septuagenarian after accidentally rubbing himself down with lidocaine. | |
| Updated at 11.03pm BST | |
| 10.49pm BST22:49 | 10.49pm BST22:49 |
| Hello and welcome to the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, California, where we are in the room for what we don’t think we’re foolish to hope will be a positively historic night in American politics: the second Republican presidential debate. | Hello and welcome to the Ronald Reagan presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, California, where we are in the room for what we don’t think we’re foolish to hope will be a positively historic night in American politics: the second Republican presidential debate. |
| Never have so many politicians come together to try to say so much in so little time. The crowd onstage tonight could field an entire NFL team. | Never have so many politicians come together to try to say so much in so little time. The crowd onstage tonight could field an entire NFL team. |
| Who would play center though? | Who would play center though? |
| Conventional wisdom has it that the job tonight for most of the candidates is to take frontrunner Donald Trump down a notch. Who will mount the best attack? How will Trump hit back? Will any policy debates accidentally break out? | Conventional wisdom has it that the job tonight for most of the candidates is to take frontrunner Donald Trump down a notch. Who will mount the best attack? How will Trump hit back? Will any policy debates accidentally break out? |
| Who are you rooting for? We want you to tell us which answers you think crackled with wit and which fell flat. We want to hear who you think is #winning. Let us know in the comments and we will decorate the most poignant and incisive entries with sparklers. | Who are you rooting for? We want you to tell us which answers you think crackled with wit and which fell flat. We want to hear who you think is #winning. Let us know in the comments and we will decorate the most poignant and incisive entries with sparklers. |
| We have a full slate of Guardian columnists and news writers on hand to try to make sense of whatever’s about to happen. Don’t let them eat up all the blog inches, though – throw your opinion in! | We have a full slate of Guardian columnists and news writers on hand to try to make sense of whatever’s about to happen. Don’t let them eat up all the blog inches, though – throw your opinion in! |
| The debate’s scheduled to begin at 5pm local time, or 8pm ET, and run for ... well it’s unclear just how long it will go. Host network CNN has three hours blocked off on its schedule, but they’re not saying how much of that will be post-debate analysis. The moderators are Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, plus conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. | The debate’s scheduled to begin at 5pm local time, or 8pm ET, and run for ... well it’s unclear just how long it will go. Host network CNN has three hours blocked off on its schedule, but they’re not saying how much of that will be post-debate analysis. The moderators are Jake Tapper and Dana Bash of CNN, plus conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. |
| Here are the candidates’ surnames and where they will be standing: | Here are the candidates’ surnames and where they will be standing: |
| The 2 stages are set for the Sept. 16 #CNNDebate. Who makes the main stage? http://t.co/75Pm4p32nP pic.twitter.com/fuSq6ZiLkW | The 2 stages are set for the Sept. 16 #CNNDebate. Who makes the main stage? http://t.co/75Pm4p32nP pic.twitter.com/fuSq6ZiLkW |
| Candidates will have one minute each to reply to questions posed by the moderators plus 30 seconds for any rebuttals. Little warning lights will expose time-clock scofflaws. | Candidates will have one minute each to reply to questions posed by the moderators plus 30 seconds for any rebuttals. Little warning lights will expose time-clock scofflaws. |
| The main event follows an undercard debate featuring four candidates – George Pataki, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham – whose polling numbers place them at the back of the pack. | The main event follows an undercard debate featuring four candidates – George Pataki, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham – whose polling numbers place them at the back of the pack. |
| May the best Washington outsider with a plan to restore American glory by getting corrupt money and special interests out of politics while destroying Isis, Hillary Clinton and Obamacare win. | May the best Washington outsider with a plan to restore American glory by getting corrupt money and special interests out of politics while destroying Isis, Hillary Clinton and Obamacare win. |
| The last main GOP debate had 10 candidates on stage. pic.twitter.com/nayCShP6ER | The last main GOP debate had 10 candidates on stage. pic.twitter.com/nayCShP6ER |
| Before the main debate is an undercard at 6pm ET featuring four candidates who did not qualify for the top-tier group: former senator Rick Santorum, former New York governor George Pataki, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham. We’ll cover that one, too, but not in quite so much detail as the main event. | Before the main debate is an undercard at 6pm ET featuring four candidates who did not qualify for the top-tier group: former senator Rick Santorum, former New York governor George Pataki, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham. We’ll cover that one, too, but not in quite so much detail as the main event. |