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ll right, with the last Republican presidential debate of 2015 tonight, we’re approaching a period when the Republican primary should really start to get going — when the field should start to consolidate. So to get a sense for how the dominoes may tumble, we’re going to play “Dropout Draft.”

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz got their first real head-to-head skirmishes in the final debate of 2015, and still nobody set a glove on Donald Trump who holds commanding leads in the national polls.

Tues­day night’s Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial de­bate in Las Ve­gas didn’t of­fer any ma­jor race-al­ter­ing mo­ments, but it did so­lid­i­fy the re­cent tra­ject­ory of the 2016 cam­paign. That’s wel­come news for Don­ald Trump and Ted Cruz, and a bad sign for Ben Car­son.

GOP debate winners and losers

The final Republican presidential debate of 2015 brought heated clashes between several major candidates in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, when national front-runner Donald Trump tangled with a newly assertive Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz repeatedly jabbed at each other.

National security dominated in a debate that featured limited sustained candidate clashes and not a lot of risk taking. No candidate truly excelled, and no one had a dreadful evening.

GOP Candidates Get Final Chance to Change 2015 Narratives

Las Vegas will host the final Republican debate of the year, giving many candidates their final shot in 2015 in at making an impression, changing or bolstering the current narrative, or demonstrating why they are legitimate contenders for the GOP nomination. As usual there is no shortage of pieces this morning advising the candidates on what they need to do and what voters ought to be looking for.

The Hill offers a succinct overview of tonight’s event:

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