Meet the Press NOW — November 8

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Ahead of debate night, Meet the Press NOW broadcasts live from the spin room in Miami. Allies of the Republican candidates onstage join to preview the debate: James Uthmeier, presidential campaign manager for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.); former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a campaign surrogate for former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.); Matt Gorman, a senior adviser for Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Tricia McLaughlin, a senior campaign adviser for Vivek Ramaswamy.

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0:00.0	And welcome to a special edition of Meet the Press Now, coming to you live from
0:16.2	beautiful Miami, Florida as we count down to the third Republican presidential
0:20.0	debate hosted by NBC News. I'm Garrett Haig, live from our NBC News debate
0:24.8	hall spin room where we are just hours away from five Republican candidates
0:28.6	taking the stage. Tonight it's arguably a game of survival as the field faces major questions about the
0:34.6	state of their own campaigns and the state of this race with front runner
0:38.1	Donald Trump maintaining his commanding lead and once again skipping the contest.
0:43.0	This is the candidates this afternoon did their walk-throughs on the stage,
0:47.0	the Republican field, and Republicans everywhere are coming to terms with last night's election results.
0:52.0	Voters in some key races and in some
0:54.4	key states sent a pretty clear warning to the GOP that the current political
0:58.6	environment might not be as friendly for Republicans as they hoped. In Virginia where Republicans were
1:03.9	looking to take full control of the General Assembly, Democrats instead
1:07.5	retained the state Senate and flipped the House. They were propelled there by the
1:11.6	issue of abortion and have effectively
1:13.2	quashed Republican Governor Glenn Youngkins legislative agenda which had
1:16.8	included a 15-week abortion ban. In Ohio voters overwhelmingly sided
1:22.0	with Democratic activists voting in favor of
1:24.4	enshrining the right to an abortion into the state constitution and even in
1:28.4	red Kentucky incumbent governor Andy Bashir held off Republican Daniel Cameron to win another term in a state that went
1:35.1	for Trump by 26 points in 2020.
1:38.9	The results were welcome news for the White House amid concerns that the president's poor approval ratings could
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