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The Daily Caller Live-Blogs The First Republican Primary Debate

Paul Conner Executive Editor
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The Daily Caller is offering an interactive live blog where you, the readers, can give your instant feedback to everything that happens on stage at the first Republican primary debate, as well as digest on-the-ground information from our reporters in Cleveland.

Fox News hosts Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace are moderating the debate from Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Facebook is helping to present the debate and is offering users the chance to submit questions and give feedback on candidates’ answers in real time.

The debate is scheduled to last 90 minutes in total. With commercials sprinkled in, it should wrap up at 11 p.m.

The following 10 candidates met the criteria of leading in certain national polls by Tuesday’s deadline:

    Businessman Donald Trump
    Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
    Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson
    Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
    Florida Sen. Marco Rubio
    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul
    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
    Ohio Gov. John Kasich
File photo combo of Republican presidential candidates

Republican presidential candidates scheduled to take part in Thursday’s televised debate. (REUTERS/Files)

Fox also hosted a separate forum for the seven other Republican candidates who did not qualify for the primetime slot. Hosts Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer moderated the “happy hour debate” at 5 p.m. Eastern.

The following candidates featured in the MacCallum-Hemmer forum:

    Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry
    Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum
    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
    Former HP executive Carly Fiorina
    South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham
    Former New York Gov. George Pataki
    Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore
Cleveland Prepares For First Republican Presidential Debate Of 2016 Election

Preparations are underway at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

People walk past a banner with the Republican party logo at the Republican National Committee (RNC) summer meetings in Cleveland

People walk past a banner with the Republican party logo at the Republican National Committee summer meetings in Cleveland, Aug. 5, 2015. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

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