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A billboard announcing the third Republican presidential debate in Miami is shown, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in downtown Miami. Five hopefuls will participate in the debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, according to the Republican National Committee. They are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

5 Republican candidates spar at debate, while Trump holds a rally nearby. Follow live updates

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump, left, listens as Michigan Republican secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo speaks during a rally in Warren, Mich., Oct. 1, 2022. Former staunch allies of the Michigan GOP chairwoman Karamo, who assumed the role following an unsuccessful secretary of state campaign, are now uniting to remove her as the party remains mired in infighting and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP, File)

Effort to remove Michigan GOP chair builds momentum as infighting and debt plague party

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy meets with Senate President Nicholas Scutari, right, and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, second right, before he delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the statehouse, in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. New Jersey wraps up voting Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, for a new Legislature, with all 120 seats on the ballot, as Republicans fight for controlling either chamber for the first time in more than two decades. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Republicans are vying to control New Jersey’s Legislature for the first time in over 2 decades

By Mike Catalini - Associated Press

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a press conference with House Republicans and families of hostages being held in Gaza at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Just 10 days before another government shutdown, Congress eyes Ukraine, Israel and border security

By Lisa Mascaro and Stephen Groves - Associated Press

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks during a rally at the National Mall during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over anti-Israel comments

By Kerry Picket and Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Moderator Renee Shaw, center, talks with Kentucky gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, left, and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, right, during a debate at KET Network Center in Lexington, Ky., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Beshear and Cameron have reached the end of their hard-hitting campaign for governor in Kentucky. After months of sparring over abortion and the economy, they'll await the verdict from voters Tuesday, Nov. 7. (Kentucky Educational Television via AP, Pool, File)

Beshear hopes abortion debate will help him win another term as governor in GOP-leaning Kentucky

By Bruce Schreiner - Associated Press

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks to reporters as he and other senators arrive at the chamber for votes, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul said on CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday, Sept. 10, that Tuberville “is paralyzing the Department of Defense,” as Tuberville wages an unprecedented attempt to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Republicans scramble for solution to Tuberville military blockade ahead of key vote

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump waits to take the witness stand at New York Supreme Court in New York on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump mixes it up with the judge from start in civil trial testimony

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, talks with Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., after Lawler voted for Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., for speaker as Republicans try to elect Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a top Donald Trump ally, to be the new House speaker, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Strengthened by adversity: House GOP says speaker’s election chaos aided incumbents in swing seats

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy answers questions from reporters after speaking at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Kissimmee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Ramaswamy schedules ‘Stop World War III’ rally

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses attendees at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Kissimmee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Can a Floridian win the presidency? It hasn’t happened yet as Trump and DeSantis vie to be first

By Brendan Farrington - Associated Press

American Jewish liberalism illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Liberal Jews won’t abandon their real religion: Liberalism

By Don Feder

Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, left, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speak during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. Ramaswamy and Haley, two of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, are Indian Americans, even though polling points to an Indian diaspora that overwhelmingly votes Democrat. The two candidates are running significantly behind former President Donald Trump and also trail Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but they’re outpacing others in the field. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Haley and Ramaswamy show the rising political power of Indian Americans even as they feud in debates

By Deepa Bharath - Associated Press

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin addresses the crowd during an early voting rally Sept. 21, 2023, in Petersburg, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Gov. Youngkin aims for a GOP sweep in Virginia’s legislative elections. Democrats have other ideas

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering during a campaign event at V.F.W. Post 1631, July 24, 2023, in Concord, N.H. As his rivals go all in on Iowa, Christie has been camped out in New Hampshire as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination. He's casting himself as the only Republican willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump and argues Trump will lose to President Joe Biden if he's the party's nominee. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Christie banks on New Hampshire as he makes the case that only he can stop Trump: ‘I am the cavalry’

By Jill Colvin and Holly Ramer - Associated Press

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden would veto funds for Israel that don’t also include aid for Ukraine defense, WH spokesman says

By Tom Howell Jr. and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, joined by, from left, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP pushes ahead with $14.5 billion in assistance for Israel without humanitarian aid for Gaza

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, left, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Sept. 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Haley has been rising with donors and voters thanks in part to strong debate performances and the campaign's increased focus on foreign policy. That's come partly at the expense of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But donors and voters seeking an alternative to former President Donald Trump haven't fully coalesced around Haley. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Nikki Haley wants to be the GOP’s Trump alternative. Ron DeSantis and others are trying to stop her

By Thomas Beaumont and Steve Peoples - Associated Press

President Joe Biden listens as he meets with Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden strategy memo details plan to retain White House in 2024

By Zeke Miller and Will Weissert - Associated Press

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, stops to speak with a reporter, Dec. 2, 2022, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Buck, a conservative Republican who represents much of Colorado's rural eastern plains, announced Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, that he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, citing many in his party who refuse to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election and to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump says Rep. Buck not seeking reelection in 2024 is ‘good news for the country’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times