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HOW’D THEY DO? The third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night in Colorado saw the candidates revolt against the the CNBC moderators for the series of negative questions thrown at them early in the two-hour event.

USA TODAY GOP Power Rankings: Carson is the new king

Ben Carson has overtaken Donald Trump for the first time in USA TODAY’s GOP Power Rankings, deemed the strongest candidate in the Republican field this week by our panel of political experts.

Winners and losers from the third Republican presidential debate

Ten Republican candidates spent two-plus hours trading rhetorical jabs in the third GOP presidential debate in Boulder, Colo. Marco Rubio won; Jeb Bush lost. Also, some others.

Young senators could fill outsider and establishment lanes.

Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial can­did­ates held their third de­bate Wed­nes­day night, and the me­dia lost.

With the first vot­ing now less than 100 days away, the sum­mer dom­in­ance of Don­ald Trump fad­ing, and sharp­er el­bows fly­ing, two of the strongest mo­ments in per­haps the two strongest per­form­ances came from at­tack­ing a fa­mil­i­ar Re­pub­lic­an tar­get, “the lib­er­al me­dia.”

The can­did­ates agreed, and the crowd agreed: CN­BC’s mod­er­at­ors wer­en’t be­ing fair to the Re­pub­lic­ans on stage dur­ing Wed­nes­day night’s pres­id­en­tial de­bate. But bey­ond that, there was little in the way of har­mony. Here’s who thrived, sur­vived, and floundered in the primary’s third pres­id­en­tial de­bate.