Marco Rubio makes a point during the CNBC Republican presidential debate at the University of Colorado, Wednesday, October 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo.
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The third Republican presidential debate Wednesday night turned ferocious early on, with candidates attacking one other.
“The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media”, Cruz said.
Republican establishment favourite Jeb Bush, son of a former president and brother of another, also went after Rubio for missing votes in the Senate while running for the White House.
The former Florida governor came into the debate after having dramatically downsized his campaign staff and huddling with nervous donors to calm their fears, the result of persistent single-digit showings in opinion polls. “You can campaign or just resign and let someone else take the job”, said Bush. “Was this a French work week?”.
Trump, a brash billionaire businessman, dominated in the polls for months, but Carson has recently taken the momentum and overtook Trump in polls in Iowa, where the first of the state-by-state contests will be held.
“Remember, we have 645 federal agencies and sub-agencies”.
He WILL get what he wants, the Art of the Deal author says, pointing to none other than this specific event, which he apparently threatened to boycott.
“Three pages is about the maximum a single business owner, or a farmer, or just a couple can understand without hiring somebody”, she said.
But Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Carson’s proposal is unrealistic.
Trump, who enjoyed frontrunner status for weeks before Carson’s surge, said he could fix the U.S. government’s 19-trillion-dollar debt but did not specify how.
A day after going at each other in a third presidential debate, a few Republican presidential candidates spent Thursday going after the debate process itself.
Mr Trump largely refrained from personal attacks on his rivals, which has been a signature of his campaign, even taking a light touch with Mr Carson.
“There were a lot of conservatives urging them to go hard after the media and that’s what they did”, Harwood said in response to the criticism.
“The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every fawning question from the media was, “Which of you is more handsome and why?”
Several candidates said they opposed a tentative two-year budget deal passed this week by the House of Representatives because it lifts mandatory spending caps that have been in place for years.
Ted Cruz was terrific, I thought, both at fighting back against the ridiculous hostile gotcha questions posed by the CNBC moderators, and in talking about his support for a commission “to get back to rules-based monetary policy”.
“This is not a cage match”, he added. “How about talking about the substantive issues?” Reporter: Candidates also critical of the questions.
Pataki, a former governor of New York who reported $14,000 in his campaign account through September, had one of his highest-profile moments in the news since the previous debate when he drew attention for going bird-watching. By attacking Rubio, a senator, for his spotty voting record on Capitol Hill, Bush signalled that he sees his fellow Floridian as the candidate most likely to block his political path.
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“Good God, look who we’re running against”, Graham said.
