With her crisp delivery of policy prescriptions and retorts to front-runner Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina clearly thought she won the night at Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
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Unlike Fiorina, Trump offered little of substance in his answers.
Still, it wasn’t all niceties; Trump had to put one of the candidates in his place early, he said. “It’s only a woman whose appearance would be talked about while running for president-never a man, and I think that’s what women understand”.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who performed in the “undercard” debate last month but qualified for the primetime debate this time around, placed third in terms of on-air time, talking for a total of almost 14 minutes. She came off as well briefed, detailed, confident, ready to fight and determined to make tough decisions.
Carly Fiorina had already dodged moderator Jake Tapper’s query about her level of comfort with a nuclear-armed Trump.
Reynolds said the state governments like Iowa spend too much time fighting Washington over things like EPA regulations.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who was more aggressive against Trump than during the first debate in August, said he was pleased with his performance.
Standing centre stage, Trump declared that he had a “phenomenal temperament” and a record in business that would help him on the world stage.
“They’re frustrated, they’re angry about the fact that the government doesn’t work, and I wanted to try last night to address them directly”, he said. “I know this, sadly, from personal experience”.
At one point, she got into a fracas with Trump over her record at HP, the information technology company, and lectured him about the U.S. Constitution.
Asked if she would be endorsing a candidate, Reynolds said she most-likely would not. Senator Rubio striking trump on foreign policy. “I said, “you’re not supposed to be up here, you have 1% [of the vote] and we have 11 people up here”… and after that he behaved very nicely, which actually I was surprised at”.
Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling before the debate showed Trump leading the 2016 race among Republicans with 32 percent. Trump wasn’t about to apologize, and Columba responded.
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Not only is Trump getting backlash from the Latino population such as Pitbull, as previously reported by the Inquisitr, but could be approaching more from women.
