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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Wednesday, November 8th.

It is post-election day. We have lots of coverage coming up right after this. But first, happening tonight is the third Republican presidential debate.

It is going to be hosted on NBC and NBC News Now.

We have five candidates who are going to be on the debate stage.

In the center, Ronda Santis, on the left and right of him, Vivek Ramoswamy and Nikki Haley,

and then Chris Christie and Tim Scott. So we have a much

smaller debate than we've had so far. According to NBC, the debate is going to look at

national security implications of the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and a series quote of

domestic political development.

So it's going to run the gamut.

And I will say you want to watch Nikki Haley especially because she feels on the national

security aspect of things that this is her wheelhouse, as someone who's the UN ambassador

under Donald Trump.

And she is looking to have another breakout debate performance considering the last few weeks

of really good poll numbers, but also, more importantly, narrative building around her and

her campaign.

And as promised, joining me now to discuss what we're seeing from the first election that returns

around the country is morning score author Madison Fernandez.

We love some cross-pollination around here from newspaper to newspaper, Madison. How are you?

I'm good. I'm living life on this election night. I was going to say, you know, we're just talking.

It's not really a Super Bowl, but it's like, you know, a D2, D3 championship.

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