“You can count on one hand the number of drive-by Media types defending what happened last night on CNBC, and one of them doesn’t even really count because his mind was lost long ago, and that’s Chris Matthews”, explained Limbaugh. “You people write this stuff”. But the candidates largely resisted vilifying each other, with the possible exception of Floridians Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
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According to Thomson Reuters’ social media sentiment analysis Cruz had the highest volume of tweets mentioning him, 14,090. Bush when Mr. Bush criticized his voting record in the Senate, and handled other questions thoughtfully and with polish.
The third prime-time GOP presidential debate certainly was more entertaining than the snooze-fest known as the first Democrat presidential debate.
“I don’t know if I’m buying into all the breathlessness about it”, Cantor added, trying to find a positive spin.
Whether you think he did well based on the substance of his answers, however, probably depends on your politics. She admitted she had sent e-mails to her family saying, “Hey, this attack at Benghazi was caused by Al Qaida-like elements”. “Let me be clear”, Cruz said. He also sparred with the CNBC moderators, who questioned the math on his tax plan and his ties to controversial nutritional supplement company Mannatech. They offered claims that they could cure autism, cancer.
At all of the GOP presidential debates so far, the opinionated Republican real-estate mogul has, quite literally, taken center-stage. Dr. Carson tried to dismiss questions about his relationship with a supplement maker accused of false advertising; moderators should have been ready to follow up.
That’s when the crowd began to boo.
The former Florida governor went after Marco Rubio for his poor attendance in the Senate with an attack that did not escape the attention of French media. “Is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?”. You should be showing up to term. “You’ve got to pick someone who has experience”.
Meanwhile, Christie, who won applause for his own attacks on the media Wednesday night, launched a separate fundraising effort on Thursday in repsonse to a New York Times editorial that called for him to drop out of the race. “There are a lot of people who are living paycheck to paycheck in Florida”. We need to know if Rubio is going to take the job seriously once he gets into office. If you were to ask Hillary’s camp to pick between Rubio and Cruz, I bet they would say Cruz without hesitation. I can’t campaign about the future of America or attacking anyone else on this stage. “I’m running for president”.
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One exchange that particularly enraged viewers was between Donald Trump and CNBC anchor Becky Quick, when the candidate flatly denied that he had been critical of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on immigration reform.
