“He went out and he refused to bite at any of the temptation of defending his record in New Jersey, even when it was attacked, of mixing it up on a few of these issues”. “If you think that Mike Huckabee won’t be a president who will cut spending, or Chris Christie or John Kasich, wait until you see what Hillary Clinton will do to this country and how she will drive us into debt. That’s what she wanted to do 20 years ago, and I guarantee you that’s what she’ll do if you give her the keys to the White House one more time”, Mr. Christie said.
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Christie shrugged off attacks from Jindal that he was insufficiently conservative and argued that Clinton “is the real adversary tonight and we better stay focused as Republicans on her”.
Huckabee countered that Jindal’s comments were inaccurate. That was higher than the 1 percent in the IBD poll, and enough to raise the New Jersey governor to an average of 2.5 percent had it replaced the IBD survey. He’s been a very good governor for Louisiana and I have a great deal of respect for him.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the United States is “on the path to socialism”. You caved into Obama.
Jindal claimed the former Arkansas governor failed to cut spending while in office.
“It’s interesting. I complemented Bobby”.
“That’s the person you want on the stage prosecuting the case against Hillary Clinton”, he said, one of several times Christie pointed to his history as a USA attorney. Huckabee: “If we’re going to do something for the Syrians, let’s find out who they are, let’s build an encampment for them, but closer to where they live rather then bringing them here when they don’t know the language or the culture”. “I’m going keep my eye on the ball”, he said.
The debate, hosted by the Fox Business Channel, the Wall Street Journal and the Republican National Committee, was the calmest of the four so far, a byproduct of the chaos of the third one in Boulder. When questioned about China’s spying on US citizens, stealing of intellectual property and general cyber aggression, Christie vowed to retaliate. He was on the main stage that night.
“Chris Christie and I missed it by”.
The debate could be crucial for the presidential hopes of Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who has struggled mightily.
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Despite standing on a second banana stage, he looked confident and comfortably combative playing the role of tough-talking rust-belt Italian American big on law enforcement and unafraid to poke his finger in the spindly foreign policy chest of President Barack Obama.
