The 2024 Republican primary begins in two months, but many of the talking points that defined the 2016 and 2012 GOP nominating contests dominated the opening volleys of this campaign’s third debate.

The feisty GOP presidential debate featured aggressive sparring by Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. Mike Pence cracked a joke about sleeping with his wife. Even Donald Duck got a shout-out.

Arts & Entertainments Six political cartoons that sum up the presidential debate. Editorial cartoonists lampooned both Biden and Trump while capturing Thursday’s tough-to-watch political spectacle.

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a little girl sat in front of a television to watch a political programme. Netizens reacted.

Eight Republican presidential hopefuls took the stage for the first 2024 Republican primary debate on Aug. 23. (Video: Blair Guild/The Washington Post, Photo: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) ...

Republican candidates participate in the second Republican primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Sept. 27, 2023, in Simi Valley, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images ...

Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican who ran the presidential debate gantlet twice and is his party’s most prominent elected Trump antagonist, offered this advice: “The key for them is not to ...