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Second GOP Debate Leaves Anti-Trump Republicans Scrambling for a Strategy

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Former president’s critics say it is too late to coalesce around a candidate to stop him; ‘they should have backed Haley instead of DeSantis’

Updated Sept. 28, 2023 10:42 pm ET

Seven Republican presidential candidates sparred in the second two-hour GOP debate on Wednesday as front-runner Donald Trump didn’t attend. Photo: Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press

Republicans who have long dreamed of Donald Trump’s political demise awoke Thursday with a combination of resignation and dread after the second presidential primary debate failed to yield a clear alternative to the prohibitive front-runner.

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