Cain, a former pizza executive who leads some polls in the race, faced only one question about the accusations by four women dating to the late 1990s. Main rival Mitt Romney refused to wade into the controversy.
"The American people deserve better than someone being tried in the court of public opinion based on unfounded accusations," Cain said in the debate at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Cain has denied the harassment charges and noted the issue had not dented voter enthusiasm for his campaign to face President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the November 2012 election.
"They don't care about character assassination, they care about leadership and getting the country going," he said to cheers from the audience.Mitt Romney insisted Wednesday that he’s been consistent in his position on the auto bailouts, calling it a mistake for the federal government to have intervened to save GM and Chrysler.
Moderator John Harwood raised the subject, asking Romney to address the impression that he’d been “on all sides of the issue.”
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Romney began by pointing to his upbringing in Michigan, saying that he “was here in the 1950s and 1960s when Detroit and Michigan was the pride of the nation.” Wednesday night's CNBC presidential debate may well have given us the most memorable moment of any debate in quite a long time - Rick Perry's potentially-calamitous inability to name the third federal agency he is vowing to abolish. It was like watching a car crash live on television. The game-changing moment has ramifications for all the presidential contenders, but it wasn't the only takeaway from Wednesday night. Below, our take on who's up and whose down in the wake of the debate:
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