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Debate aftermath: Campaigning, questions for GOP candidates

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a copy of his book Crippled America before signing it for a veteran in the crowd at Politics and Eggs in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday, November 11, 2015. The event was hosted by New England Council and NH Institute of Politics.

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In the CBS News/New York Times poll, 31 percent of likely Democratic primary voters chose Trump, who had been leading in opinion polls for the Republican presidential nomination.

Donald Trump is just fine with eight candidates on the debate stage, and he wouldn’t mind if a few more disappear before the next one.

“If the Chinese commit cyber warfare against us, they’re going to see cyber warfare like they’ve never seen before”, he said, after stating his information was compromised in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches. “It’s a handsome thing to watch”.

“You know, in the old days, it was great”.

“So many in the media want to bring me down, because I represent something that they can’t stand”, Carson said, later asking students to pray for him and his family.

“(Christie) is a good man, a good guy, and he did well last night from what they tell me”, Trump said, referencing the New Jersey governor’s performance in the undercard debate. “And, I can tell you, I don’t have to give you a website, because I’m self-funding my campaign”.

“We can’t allow people to cut off peoples’ heads”, he said. In fact, most of money Trump’s campaign has spent recently has come from donations.. “We are not playing games”.

Asked about the heroin crisis in New Hampshire, Trump said part of the solution, in addition to setting up locally based clinics, would be to “stop the source” by closing the borders.

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his plan Wednesday to deport millions living here illegally, saying it could be done “humanely”.

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“Eisenhower did it”, he said, in reference to a 1954 deportation program under President Dwight Eisenhower. “Because he had to do it”. “You love it? Whatever it is you love, you do”. “We either have a country, or we don’t”.

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