LIVE CHAT: Join NPR's Politics Team For The Republican Debates

By Amita Kelly,

NPR Staff

Published August 6, 2015 at 2:39 PM EDT

The top 10 Republican presidential candidates, as determined by Fox News, took the stage together for the first time Thursday night in Cleveland. The other seven, who ranked lower in Fox News' analysis of recent polls, debated earlier in the evening.

NPR's politics team hosted a live chat for both debates. The archived chat is below:

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