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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Endorses Trump For President Amidst Third GOP Debate

Trump rally in Florida upstages nearby GOP presidential debate . . . Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination hoped the debate stage in Miami would put them at the center of the political universe Wednesday night. Instead, they found themselves in a familiar position: competing with the boisterous former president for the attention of GOP primary voters. Never one to miss the chance to upstage his foes, Mr. Trump held a campaign rally miles away in Hialeah, taking the stage to raucous chants of “USA! USA!” roughly 90 minutes later than scheduled, and a half an hour into the televised Republican showdown. Washington Times

GOP Debate Takeaways: Nikki Haley Takes Fire as She Jockeys for Second Place . . . Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has shown momentum in recent weeks, came under sustained attack in Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debate as she competes with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the leading alternative to former President Donald Trump. She also delivered several of her own shots at DeSantis, who tried to float above the fray, but engaged with her on China, energy policy and a handful of other issues. A confrontation between the two had been brewing, amplified by a closely watched poll that recently showed Haley and DeSantis tied for second in Iowa, where nomination balloting starts Jan. 15. But second place may not be worth much given Trump’s commanding lead in the polls. Wall Street Journal

GOP debaters clash but leave Trump mostly untouched . . . Five Republican presidential candidates who shared a debate stage in Miami Wednesday clashed with one another but did little to challenge former President Trump, the frontrunner who skipped the Miami event to hold a rally just 15 minutes away.  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) and Vivek Ramaswamy offered little evidence that their exchanges on issues from China and Israel to abortion and Social Security shook up the GOP primary, which Trump has dominated for months. The Hill

‘CORRUPT MEDIA!’: Vivek Nukes The RNC’s Entire NBC Panel, Crowd Goes Nuts . . . Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy started off the third Republican presidential debate by turning the tables on the NBC panel hosting the event. Ramaswamy was asked why he should be the GOP nominee for president in 2024 rather than former President Donald Trump. The businessman set his sights on the moderators themselves. “Think about who’s moderating this debate, this should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk. We’d have 10 times the viewership, asking questions the GOP primary voters actually care about and bring in more people to our party. We got Kristen Welker here, you think the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate?” Ramaswamy asked. Daily Caller

Vivek is tearing NBC's Lester Holt a new one 😜

Republican debate: Ramaswamy says DeSantis and Haley are 'Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels' . . . Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slammed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at Wednesday's GOP debate, describing them both as "Dick Cheney in three-inch heels." Ramaswamy made the attempted dig while trying to equate Haley joining the board of Boeing after leaving the Trump administration to Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings. Washington Examiner

Nikki Haley rips Vivek Ramaswamy as ‘scum’ in fiery exchange after GOP hopeful calls out her daughter’s TikTok use . . . A visibly enraged Nikki Haley derided Vivek Ramaswamy as “scum” during a heated exchange at Wednesday night’s third Republican presidential primary debate after the biotech entrepreneur invoked the former ambassador to the United Nations adult daughter to make a point about the social media platform TikTok. New York Post

US forces under fire in Middle East as America slides towards brink . . .  A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of the barracks housing American troops at about 5 a.m, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Reuters

As WW3 looms, US Army shamelessly releases new recruitment ad featuring ONLY white "guys"

IDF captures terror stronghold as troops said closing in on Shifa Hospital’s Hamas HQ . . . The Israeli Defense Force said its troops captured a major Hamas stronghold in west Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City, in the early hours of Thursday morning following 10 hours of fighting, as the military meanwhile pushed further into the heart of Gaza City where the terror group is believed to have its underground headquarters. The IDF said that Nahal Infantry Brigade troops battled Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives in the west Jabaliya stronghold known as Outpost 17, who were both “above ground and in an underground route in the area,” and that dozens of terror operatives were killed in the course of the battle. Times of Israel

Displaced pack Gaza hospitals, others flee as Israeli troops and Hamas fighters clash . . . Israeli forces fought Hamas militants among ruined buildings in the north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, inching their way closer to two big hospitals as the plight of civilians in the besieged Palestinian territory worsened. Thousands more Palestinians were fleeing from the embattled north to the south along a perilous frontline path after Israel told them to evacuate, residents say. But many are staying in the north, packed into the Al Shifa Hospital and al-Quds Hospital as ground battles rage around them and more Israeli air strikes rain down from above. Reuters

Australians donating tens of thousands to Gaza aid organisation accused of funnelling funds to Islamic terrorist group behind hijackings and suicide bombings . . .  Australians have been donating tens of thousands of dollars to an aid organisation in Gaza that’s been accused of funnelling the money to a hardline Islamic terrorist group.  Sky News can reveal the charity founded by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network President Nasser Mashni is sending money to a Gaza-based health organisation that is accused of being affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, known as the PFLP. The PFLP, responsible for hijacking planes, assassinations and suicide bombings, is a designated terrorist organisation in the United States, the European Union and Canada, while Australia has the group on its consolidated list of organisations subject to financial sanctions. Sky News

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Money

Citadel's Griffin Says Peace Dividend Over, High Inflation to Last Decades . . . Citadel founder Ken Griffin said the world is facing unrest and structural changes that are pushing it toward de-globalization and causing higher baseline inflation that may last “for decades.” “The peace dividend is clearly at the end of the road,” Griffin said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum on Thursday in Singapore, referencing the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars. “We are likely to see higher real rates and we’re likely to see higher nominal rates.” Bloomberg

Culture and Censorship

New 'Orwellian' HHS pronoun mandate forces employees to 'deny reality,' violate law: legal expert . . . The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has rolled out a new gender pronoun policy that one Heritage Foundation expert and former HHS official says violates employee rights and will result in firings for "misgendering." "HHS and the federal government is requiring its employees to speak falsehoods," Roger Severino, the Heritage Foundation’s vice president for domestic policy and the former head of civil rights at HHS during the Trump administration, told Fox News Digital. Fox News

Censorship files show Just the News flagged in government-tied election misinformation system . . . Some government interns make coffee, pick up mail and answer phone calls from irate constituents. Others scour social media for narratives their bosses would prefer not go viral. This week two congressional committees said they had obtained voluminous new evidence of "censorship laundering" by the Department of Homeland Security through the Election Integrity Partnership, a private consortium that DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency helped set up ahead of the 2020 election. Just the News

America’s Population Projected to Shrink by 2100, Census Figures Show . . . America’s long streak of population growth is expected to come to an end. Census Bureau projections released Thursday show that, under the most likely scenario, the U.S. will stop growing by 2080 and shrink slightly by 2100. It is the first time that the bureau has projected a population decline as part of its main outlook for the coming decades. The only time the U.S. has recorded a population decline was in 1918, when the flu pandemic and deployment abroad of more than one million troops produced a small drop in the estimated population. Wall Street Journal

Tim Scott finally reveals mystery girlfriend at 3rd Republican debate . . . He had a date for the debate. Sen. Tim Scott debuted his mystery girlfriend Wednesday on the stage at the third GOP presidential primary debate in Miami amid growing curiosity over the lifelong bachelor’s love life and apprehension among donors. Scott was joined by his gal pal of “about a year” — identified by his campaign as Mindy Noce — onstage after the debate to pose for a photo. New York Post

Global study names world's booziest nations; the top 3 will surprise you . . . Britain beat out most countries to rank high on a list of the biggest binge drinkers in the world, sitting behind only Romania and surprise No. 1 Denmark. "Nearly one in five adults (19%) reported heavy episodic drinking at least once a month, on average across 29 countries in 2019," the study from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found. "This proportion varies 10-fold, from less than 3% in Turkey and Italy to more than 30% in Germany, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom and Denmark, as well as Romania," the researchers concluded. Fox News

Jelly Roll and Wynonna Judd perform 'Need A Favor' live at 'The 57th Annual CMA Awards'