America should not open its doors to Syrian refugees fleeing from the terror of the Islamic State militant organization, Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee asserted during Tuesday night’s Fox Business undercard Republican presidential debate.
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Two who had been in the main debate before, Huckabee and Christie, fell short and were excluded.
The debate will notably exclude former NY Gov. George Pataki (R) and Sen.
Bobby Jindal (R) kicked off the trend: “This is why people are so frustrated with the last debate with these kinds of silly questions”. It’s time to change that, he says to applause. Even when Bobby Jindal lashed out, hoping to appeal to Iowans instead of the New Hampshirites Christie wants to woo, the New Jersey governor was unfazed. “We get rid of the IRS”, he said. He said he was appalled when Clinton said during the Democratic presidential debate that Republicans were her enemy and accused President Obama of failing to support police officers.
“I respect them because they are willing to take it to us”, he said.
Rick Santorum were afterthoughts for much of the Fox Business Channel debate broadcast from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Christie still thinks of himself as a strong general election candidate, a moderate like Mitt Romney without the veneer of a patrician.
“What that means is let’s shrink the government, not slow its growth rate, but actually shrink the government, so we can grow the American economy”.
“We need a conservative, not a big government Republican”, the Louisianan groused. The New Jersey governor then added he believes the USA central bank is exacerbating income inequality. “She is the real adversary tonight”.
At one point, Jindal said he would give Christie a participation ribbon and a juice box.
Bush, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, and others criticized Trump for his foreign policy views, including his statement that the US should just let Russian Federation fight the Islamic State in Syria.
“The first thing I’ll do to the Chinese is I’ll fly Air Force One over the islands”, he warned. “You know what they care about?”
Ted Cruz called the Fed a collection of “philosopher kings trying to guess what’s happening in the economy”. He spent most of his time attacking Hillary Clinton.
“When they go to relieve themselves, their cause and their waste get flushed at the same time”, Jindal said, referencing how the senators refrain from using the restroom for long periods of time in order to continue talking on the Senate floor.
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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, also relegated to the early debate, again defended federal “entitlement” programs such as Medicare and Social Security, saying that Americans had paid into those programs and deserved to have them pay out.
