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10.20pm GMT22:20
Jindal says it’s “dangerous times for America” because of the size of the debt, $18tn. (The debt limit reset in March was $18.113tn.)
10.20pm GMT22:20
My colleague Jana Kasperkevic will be analysing the debate through a series of Vines tonight. Here she highlights the wealth of the candidates’ in this undercard debate.
The four candidates in this debate are worth combined $21 million. Chump change. https://t.co/Cc1OJ6EWnz
10.16pm GMT22:16
Pataki agrees with Graham on the current budget, saying it protects the military.
An air of comity prevails in Boulder. Jindal’s tie is pink. The backdrop to the stage is electric blue and rather aggressively branded with the CNBC logo. Big moment for the little cable channel that could.
10.15pm GMT22:15
Santorum takes a question about his flat tax - he wants to tax every household income at an even 20%.
He says the biggest problem is the breakdown of the American family. He says his plan is pro-growth and pro-family. He doesn’t get into how throwing out the graduated tax system is more pro-family than a flat tax.
10.14pm GMT22:14
10.13pm GMT22:13
Quick asks about debt limits. Would you blow through the debt ceiling in order to resist passing a disagreeable budget, like the one before Congress now?
Jindal says it’s a false choice because the government could cut spending and not keep running through the ceiling.
He says something about “turning the American dream into a European nightmare,” with reference to unemployment and growth rates.
Harwood swipes the spotlight. He asks Graham whether he would vote for a budget deal agreed to Monday night.
Graham ignores the question. “I’ll tell you what is real,” he says. “The threat to our homeland.”
He’ll vote for the budget, he says, because it puts “$40bn back in the defense department at a time we need it.”
10.12pm GMT22:12
10.10pm GMT22:10
Harwood has the first Q. It’s not about $$ at all. It’s about how popular outsider candidacies are this year and asks Jindal, the Louisiana governor, how he fits the bill.
Jindal says he will chop government, which is the most outsider-y thing of all. Santorum says that he was a force for reform during his two senate terms. Pataki, the thrice-elected governor, says Washington needs and outsider but “you can’t just be an outsider.”
Graham says thanks for having him and asks the audience to applaud itself. He says the only way he could have gotten into UC-Boulder was to be invited to the presidential debate. Hard to tell whether they laughed. Then he zooms to the end of his statement about national security threats being real.
10.07pm GMT22:07
The event begins. Becky Quick introduces the show. Candidates get 30 seconds per question and the same for rebuttals, she explains. Quintanilla is on her right, your left. Harwood’s on the other side.
10.05pm GMT22:05
Oh pity. They’re making them stand there behind their lecterns without, for the moment, asking them anything. It’s a silent debate. Aaand now they’ve gone to commercial.
Well, Marco Rubio made a joke on YouTube today. Did you see it?
10.02pm GMT22:02
Time’s up for preliminary niceties. The four bonus candidates have taken the stage. Bobby, Rick, George and Lindsey. Let’s listen to what these guys have to say.
10.01pm GMT22:01
Is Donald Trump in trouble? In advance of the debate, he was already complaining about an “unfair” fight
After a great evening and packed auditorium in Iowa, I am now in Colorado looking forward to what I am sure will be a very unfair debate!
The essence of his beef was that CNBC has been broadcasting the same poll everyone else has picked up on this week, which for the first time since July showed Trump trailing Ben Carson in the nominating race.
It was a solid poll, commissioned by CBS News /New York Times and conducted over the telephone by people, as opposed to through robo-calling or over the Internet, which latter techniques are considered less effective.
The poll found Carson ahead of Trump 26-22.
.@CNBC continues to report fictious poll numbers. Number one, based on every statistic, is Trump (by a wide margin). They just can't say it!
Trump would rather have America look at a poll published just today, by YouGov/ The Economist and conducted over the Internet, which shows him ahead of Carson 32-18.
.@TheEconomist Poll, one of the most highly respected, was just released. Wow, wait until the media digests these numbers - won't be happy!
9.52pm GMT21:52
Hosting tonight’s event is the cable channel CNBC, which has wrangled three moderators and three sideline questioners for the job. They’re calling it “The Republican Presidential Debate: Your Money, Your Vote.”
The moderators are Becky Quick, John Harwood and Carl Quintanilla.
The questioners are Jim Cramer, Sharon Epperson and Rick Santelli.
Harwood comes into the event with already one debate scalp tacked to his wall. Remember Texas Governor Rick Perry’s big “oops” in 2012? That was thanks to Harwood:
But Santelli may be the real star of the evening: he’s credited with giving rise – and giving a name – to one of the most influential forces in conservative politics in the last 50 years.
A Santelli rant on the floor of the Chicago stock exchange in 2009 about bailing out bad mortgages captured the outrage many Americans felt over what they considered to be bad fiscal habits in Washington and a national malady of spending beyond one’s means.
Behold, how the Tea Party, in part, was born:
9.27pm GMT21:279.27pm GMT21:27
Hello! and welcome to our coverage of the third Republican presidential debate.Hello! and welcome to our coverage of the third Republican presidential debate.
Tonight, it’s all about money.Tonight, it’s all about money.
Money: what’s more important to you? What’s more important to anyone? Nothing, and yet too often the national political conversation burbles along with no real discussion of the policies that matter most for your bottom line: taxes, debt, pensions, trade, health care and capital-G Growth. Money: what’s more important to you? What’s more important to anyone? Nothing, and yet too often the national political conversation burbles along with no real discussion of the policies that matter most for your bottom line: taxes, debt, pensions, trade, healthcare and capital-G Growth.
The 14 remaining Republican candidates are going to tear into those questions tonight with their teeth, in what should be at the very least an impressive competition to see who can make the most wildly impossible promises about lowering taxes while protecting the entitlements programs voters hold most dear.The 14 remaining Republican candidates are going to tear into those questions tonight with their teeth, in what should be at the very least an impressive competition to see who can make the most wildly impossible promises about lowering taxes while protecting the entitlements programs voters hold most dear.
On the off chance that those $$ topics leave you cold, consider this: tonight may present one of the rare moments when Donald Trump will not be the loudest person in the room. Hosting the debate this evening will be no fewer than six television personalities from the cable financial news channel CNBC, whose programs go by names like Squawk on the Street and Squawk Alley and Squawk Box. It’s a great channel!On the off chance that those $$ topics leave you cold, consider this: tonight may present one of the rare moments when Donald Trump will not be the loudest person in the room. Hosting the debate this evening will be no fewer than six television personalities from the cable financial news channel CNBC, whose programs go by names like Squawk on the Street and Squawk Alley and Squawk Box. It’s a great channel!
Here are the candidates taking part in the main debate, which starts at 8pm ET:Here are the candidates taking part in the main debate, which starts at 8pm ET:
As with the three prior Republican debates, tonight’s main event, which starts at 8pm ET, will be preceded by a junior varsity debate comprising the four candidates who are polling least well. The venue is named after a beer synonymous with Colorado, if you hate Colorado: the Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder.As with the three prior Republican debates, tonight’s main event, which starts at 8pm ET, will be preceded by a junior varsity debate comprising the four candidates who are polling least well. The venue is named after a beer synonymous with Colorado, if you hate Colorado: the Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
The JV debate is scheduled to start soon, at 6pm ET. Participating in the warm-up will be:The JV debate is scheduled to start soon, at 6pm ET. Participating in the warm-up will be:
Settle in now for a night of bling, zing, and cha-cha-cha ching. Settle in now for a night of bling, zing and cha-cha-cha ching.
Along for the ride this evening here at Guardian US are:Along for the ride this evening here at Guardian US are:
To get in the mood, watch our video report: What’s at stake in Colorado?To get in the mood, watch our video report: What’s at stake in Colorado?
Updated at 9.41pm GMT You can watch the debate live here.
Updated at 10.02pm GMT