He also guaranteed that “we’re going to make sure that CNBC isn’t hosting and moderating another debate with our candidates”.
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Hannity asked why Republicans are OK with liberal networks hosting a GOP debate when Democrats won’t do a Fox News debate.
This weekend, speaking to a group of donors in Texas, Bush assured them that he would electrify in the third debate.
In short, there was no repeat of flummoxed Mitt Romney meekly submitting to “fact checking” by biased CNN moderator Crowley in the lively and informative CNBC debate.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus blasted tonight’s debate moderators.
“I wish I could talk as well as a few of the people on the stage, the big personalities on the stage, but I’m a do-er”, he said during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Bush’s campaign manager insisted immediately after the debate that the former Florida governor would remain in the 2016 presidential nomination race for the long haul.
Trump said the questions were “nasty and ridiculous”.
The billionaire businessman cited conservative CNBC commentator and economist Larry Kudlow, who has said he said loves Trump’s tax plan.
In response to the criticism, CNBC released a one-line statement saying, “People who want to be president of the United States should be able to answer tough questions”. Bush and the superPAC that supports him have more money than any other candidate in the field. “You should be showing up”. This is not a cage match.
The weekend confab is being organized by the campaigns of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has led recent polls, struggled to articulate his policies.
“You know, these are people who put on a pretty decent show in the morning on CNBC”. “Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign?” Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?
“How about talking about the substantive issues?”
But in terms of sentiment, based on the ratio of positive versus negative tweets, Trump scored 15.2 on average, followed by Rand Paul, a US senator from Kentucky, with an average score of 8.12, according to Thomson Reuters data. Trump accused Quick of incorrectly quoting him, and it took her several minutes to prove her point. Trump slammed the “ridiculous questions”, and Christie grew visibly irate at the moderators’ decision to discuss fantasy football instead of other issues.
But Christie interjected, to the approval of the audience: “Are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football?”
The last time around, the candidates were debating the same thing (the economy) and going up against the same incumbent (President Obama), so what gives?
“It became irritating”, he said. He calmly refused again last night to go along.
Debates are, by their nature, created to draw out differences between candidates. On the topic of Trump’s “moral authority”, Trump said, “Such a nasty question”.
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“Will they finally get off the fence and declare for Rubio?”.
