After months of GOP presidential candidates by turns ignoring or attacking Donald Trump, the 12th Republican debate at the University of Miami — perhaps that last chance to stop him prior to the convention — turned out to be a substantive and civil event, reports The Washington Post. Indeed, Trump is now taking a new tack as a less belligerent GOP unifier, according to Politico.

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