--- title: Republican Debate: Read the Full-Text Transcript description: Five Republican presidential candidates faced off Thursday night in Houston for the tenth GOP debate. canonical: https://time.com/4238363/republican-debate-tenth-houston-cnn-telemundo-transcript-full-text/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-26T05:03:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:24:21.749Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Full Transcript of the Tenth Republican Debate og:description: Here's the full text of the Houston debate. og:url: https://time.com/4238363/republican-debate-tenth-houston-cnn-telemundo-transcript-full-text/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68a9e6ff2269181a/69887f360a4a2226839c88d8/gettyimages-512261654-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Members of the media tour the debate hall ahead of the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Full Transcript of the Tenth Republican Debate twitter:description: Here's the full text of the Houston debate. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68a9e6ff2269181a/69887f360a4a2226839c88d8/gettyimages-512261654-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Full Transcript of the Tenth Republican Debate in Texas by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Feb 26, 2016 5:03 AM CUT  Members of the media tour the debate hall ahead of the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. Members of the media tour the debate hall ahead of the Republican presidential primary candidate debate sponsored by CNN and Telemundo at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Feb 26, 2016 5:03 AM CUT Five Republican presidential candidates faced off Thursday night in Houston for the tenth GOP debate. Real estate mogul Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson were all on the stage for a debate hosted by CNN and Spanish language network Telemundo. The debate moderators were Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash of CNN, María Celeste Arrarás of Telemundo and radio host Hugh Hewitt. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4238363/republican-debate-tenth-houston-cnn-telemundo-transcript-full-text/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4238363/republican-debate-tenth-houston-cnn-telemundo-transcript-full-text/"},"headline":"Read the Full Transcript of the Tenth Republican Debate in Texas","datePublished":"2016-02-26T05:03:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:24:21.749Z","description":"And then there were five.","url":"https://time.com/4238363/republican-debate-tenth-houston-cnn-telemundo-transcript-full-text/","keywords":["Debates","2016 Election topic","Sen. Marco Rubio","ted cruz","Donald Trump","john kasich","Dr. Benjamin S. 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