Republican showdown: Four GOP candidates — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — faced off Wednesday night in Alabama in the fourth presidential debate of the 2024 cycle.

A diminishing field of Republican presidential candidates has begun its fourth debate of the 2024 primary campaign, the last scheduled debate before the Iowa caucuses kick off the nominating process in January.

Eight Republicans will take the debate stage in Milwaukee at the first Republican primary debate hosted by Fox News. Here’s how to watch the debate. The race to the 2024 election is officially in full swing as at least a dozen Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have declared and launched their 2024 presidential campaigns.

The debate played out in front of a rowdy crowd of about 4,000 people at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. The crowd’s reactions — including jeers and boos when candidates criticized Trump — at times drowned out the Fox News moderators. Here are some takeaways from the first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate: