Two debates, one winner: Carly

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CLEVELAND — About an hour into the primetime debate of the top 10 candidates in the Republican presidential race, the conservative actor Nick Searcy tweeted, “I’m afraid @CarlyFiorina is winning the second debate too.”

He was on to something. Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, shone earlier in the evening, when seven GOP candidates who didn’t make the cut for the primetime session gathered for the night’s first faceoff. For about an hour after that debate, the big story was Fiorina winning what was sometimes called the undercard session.

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