Candidates used their party's poor performance in Tuesday's elections as a punching bag at the start of the debate.
"We've become a party of losers," Vivek Ramaswamy said.
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"I'm sick of Republicans losing," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
For each of them, it was a chance to pitch himself as the antidote to what ails Republicans. Ramaswamy promised to take on the establishment, while DeSantis bragged about his electoral record in Florida.
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