He had talked on the campaign trail before the debate about the obvious need to be more aggressive and on the attack, and I think he started out early in the debate in that mindset and was on the offensive but just kind of disappeared as the night went on, said Aaron Kall, director of debate at the University of Michigan.
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Republican front-runner Donald Trump has proposed that workers without proper immigration permits be sent back to their native countries. In turn, there were claims and counter-claims. The men and women who wear the badge are doing the right thing every day, all the time.
Walker challenged Trump on stage early in the CNN debate.
WALKER: You – you – let me finish…
Walker had repeatedly said he was hoping for a strong debate performance to help increase momentum for his campaign that has tumbled in recent weeks amid the rise of Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson.
“I don’t think his message resonates as much as it did before”, Weingarten said.
That budget deficit reference on Walker has been a constant talking point of Trump’s, which Politifact has rated mostly false. “We don’t know who you are or where you’re going”. A National Public Radio analysis shows Walker got the least amount of air time of all 11 candidates during the three-hour debate – just eight minutes and 29 seconds. “We balanced the budget”. Walker said the country needs someone with experience actually shaking up government.
Walker said he would prohibit federal workers from collective bargaining, make all states “right to work” – like Nevada – where you do not have to join a union and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board, the agency that oversees disputes between workers and employers.
During the Heritage Foundation’s presidential candidate forum on Friday, the group’s CEO asked the Republican presidential candidate about the “Ferguson effect” – the false theory that police have slowed down enforcement due to public scrutiny, which has lead to more crime.
Then coming into 2015, if all requests from state agencies were granted that would have created a $2.2 billion deficit. You can’t take America into bankruptcy. Our rating on the 2013 statement was Half True.
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GOP voters like Mike Swanson, a 53-year-old voter from Davenport, Iowa, still routinely praise Walker for sticking with his conservative principles during his turbulent first term as governor. But his claim had a context problem because it mixed two different ways to define the size of the turnaround. Once a candidate admits that he’s betting the farm on a single contest, the all-in tactic may seem bold, but it also raises the prospect of an immediate collapse if the gambit falls short. Chicago billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin cut $100,000 checks this spring to Walker, Rubio and Bush. Showing the usual ethical perversity that afflicts “private-enterprise” sports owners, this flim-flamming carpetbagger immediately demanded a $250 million subsidy from Wisconsin and Milwaukee taxpayers to build a sparkling new sports palace for him.
