Trump takes credit for Joe Manchin’s retirement announcement – live

Mr Trump visited Hialeah, Florida to hold a counter-rally as the third GOP presidential primary debate was underway nearby.

During the rally, Mr Trump name-dropped Republican Congressman Carlos Gimenez of Florida — but only after butchering his name on a first attempt — and was met with a wave of boos from the audience.

Mr Trump seemed genuinely surprised by the response.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

Because I Endorsed Big Jim Justice of West Virginia for the U.S. Senate, and he has taken a commanding lead, Democrat Joe Manchin has decided not to seek re-election. Looking good for Big Jim!

Sen Joe Manchin (D-WV), the conservative Democratic Senator from the arch-Republican state of West Virginia whose aversion to more liberal policies often dictated the course of President Joe Biden’s domestic policy agenda, announced on Thursday that he would not run for re-election.

Eric Garcia reports for The Independent on this developing story.

In many ways, her testimony was unremarkable. But she repeatedly said she “could not recall” the details or documents about her involvement with major projects she later said she was “proud” to work on, or whether she was involved with her father’s financial statements that Judge Engoron has already determined were fraudulent.

Mike Bedigan rounds up some of the stand-out moments from her evidence:

The motions hearing in the New York State civil fraud trial of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization resumed following lunch with a rare moment of peacemaking.

Mr Trump’s lawyer Christopher Kise apologised for telling New York Attorney General’s counsel Andrew Amer to consider a job with Vladimir Putin.

He told Judge Arthur Engoron: “When you’re right, you’re right … I want to apologise on the record.”

Amer says he accepts the apology.

Having considered the NY AG’s motion to exclude four of the defence’s witnesses on the grounds of irrelevance (as the fraud charge ruling was made pretrial) Judge Engoron says he feels it would be prudent to let the witnesses in.

“I don’t want a retrial of this case. I don’t want to be reversed.”

He later adds: “I’m going to allow the testimony without prejudice to objecting to anything that may be irrelevant.”

Turning to a different issue, the judge clarifies what his role is and is not: “I’m not here to value these properties. I’m here to decide whether these statements of financial condition were fraudulent.”

He is referring to an insinuation by the former president that he personally assigned a lowball value to Mar-a-Lago when he did not. The $18m figure cited came from an independent appraisal from 2011.

Reiterating that he will let the defence’s expert witnesses testify (but saying he will cut short irrelevant testimony) Judge Engoron adjourns the court for the Veterans’ Day holiday and the weekend.

The directed verdict motion brought by the defence remains unresolved and court is scheduled to resume at 10am on Monday when the defence will begin presenting their case.

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel roasted Ivanka Trump on Wednesday night, after she struggled to recall much as she gave testimony in her father’s $250 million civil fraud trial.

The former president, his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, and other Trump Organization executives and associates are currently being sued for defrauding banks and investors by overvaluing Mr Trump’s net worth and assets by as much as $2.2bn a year to gain more favourable financing terms. Mr Trump has denied the allegations.

Ms Trump hired her own attorney and successfully removed herself as a defendant in the case earlier this year, but her attempts to dodge testifying ultimately failed.

Martha McHardy reports on what Kimmel had to say.

Republican presidential candidates descended on Miami for a debate on Wednesday – and the third one without former president Donald Trump sharing the stage.

All of the Republican candidates continue to trail behind the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted former president. Still, some of the sharpest exchanges took place when discussing foreign policy, the Israel-Hamas war, Russia’s incursion into Ukraine and China’s rising influence. Many of the Republican presidential candidates once again attacked Vivek Ramaswamy as the millennial businessman came out swinging.

Here are the winners and losers from the third Republican debate.

The third Republican primary debate was an ugly slugfest reminiscent of the earliest Trump debates of 2015 — except the former president wasn’t even there.

A group of five candidates, minus their party’s frontrunner, appeared onstage Wednesday evening in Miami for what was billed as a presidential debate but in the end may have just been an exercise in futility, given the continued dominance of Donald Trump in every available poll of the GOP primary.

What transpired over two hours served as a reminder of what Mr Trump has done to this party, and raised the question of whether his shadow will loom over Republicans long after he fades from relevance.

Let’s look at the main takeaways from Wednesday’s showdown: