On Wednesday, CNN hosted the second GOP debate of the 2016 presidential election season.
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The billionaire’s unexpected durability has some of his rivals shifting their strategy for Wednesday’s second showdown.
New York business mogul Donald Trump, meanwhile, hold a large lead for the nomination with 30.5 percent.
Tapper noted that that’s not an answer to his question, and repeated it: “Would you feel comfortable with Donald Trump’s finger on the nuclear codes?”
“Let’s stop treating Donald Trump like he’s a Republican“, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said at the beginning of the event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. “I deal. I have tremendous energy – tremendous, to a point where it’s nearly ridiculous, when you think about it” he said to a crowd of roughly 20 thousand people in Dallas Monday night.
Trump has become increasingly critical of Fiorina as her standing has risen and he was quoted in a recent interview making derogatory comments about her looks, though he later denied he was referring to her appearance. In the main debate for the first time will be Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard executive and only woman in the GOP field.
Trump told Rolling Stone magazine, “Look at that face!”
The first lesser-polling candidates debate starts at 6 p.m. EDT and will be over by 8 p.m. EDT, which is when the main debate is expected to start. He’ll do that, in part, by taking on Trump directly after spending much of the summer ignoring his presence. George Pataki and former Pennsylvania Sen.
Trump previously charged that Bush’s stance on immigration reform is weak because his wife Columba was born in Mexico.
The Tea Party senator then asked whether voters wanted someone using Trump’s kind of “careless language” to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and said there was a “sophomoric quality” to Trump that made him entertaining. “He believes in Donald Trump“.
“I think the candidate with the most at stake is Jeb Bush”. Will he spark a new feud, à la his back-and-forth with Megyn Kelly?
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‘You can’t just, you know, talk about this stuff and insult leaders around the world and expect a good result, ‘ the former Florida governor said. I won’t be enthusiastic about it. But I’ve said before I would support the nominee.
