Debate to Feature GOP Candidates
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The Des Moines Register is sponsoring a 90-minute debate among the Republican presidential candidates today at 11 a.m. (PST). The debate, which is to include questions submitted by the newspaper’s readers as well as queries posed by two high school students, can be seen live on CNN and C-SPAN.
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