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Republican debate: Trump and Cruz go from bromance to sparring partners

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Welcome to Trail Guide, your host through the wilds of the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s Thursday, Jan. 14, and here’s what we’re talking about:

  • Ted Cruz and Donald Trump attacked each other over Cruz’s birthplace (Cruz is almost certainly eligible to be president)
  • Debate takeaways: The Trump-Cruz feud is on, Marco Rubio tries to be angry and more
  • Nearly all the Republicans went after President Obama
  • Here’s what all the candidates said about keeping Muslims from entering the U.S.
  • What, exactly, are #NewYorkValues? The Internet explains
  • Takeaways from the undercard: Carly Fiorina is sharp, and Rand Paul’s absence is felt
  • Peruse debate night photos
  • On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are going after each other more aggressively as their race tightens

Three debate moments people are talking about that have nothing to do with Donald Trump

Donald Trump certainly knows how to spark a conversation. Indeed, two of the top-Tweeted moments from Thursday’s debate were about him. But the lesser-known candidates generated plenty of commentary themselves. Here’s what the Internet was talking about:

Rand Paul declined to join the so-called undercard debate. Instead, he opted to hold his own town hall on Twitter.

Though he was gone from the stage, his name didn’t go unsaid.

“We want Rand!” rang through the crowd midway through the main debate. Simultaneously, #RandRally popped up on Twitter.

Graham may no longer be running for president, but he hasn’t been forgotten. Graham, the home-state senator in front of the South Carolina crowd, was a delight in earlier undercard debates, bringing to bear a lighthearted wit that belied his dark outlook on national security.

On Thursday night, he was in the audience for the debate, and the cameras panned to him, causing some to pine for his presence on the debate stage again:

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A reminder: The candidates have the same plan to fight Islamic State as Obama does

We noted this back in November, and no Republican presidential hopeful has laid out a significantly different strategy since.

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