Former South Carolina gov Nikki Haley, Gov Ron Desantis of Florida and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy during the third Republican presidential debate in Miami. Photograph: Scott McIntyre/The New York Times

A day after Republicans suffered a string of off-year election defeats, five of the party’s presidential hopefuls took part in a hostile primary debate on Wednesday, clashing in a competition for second place behind absentee frontrunner Donald Trump.

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