“This President has completely abandoned ship”, the Republican presidential hopeful told reporters at the Sunshine Summit in Florida.
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Mr. Cruz vowed that if elected president he would use overwhelming USA air power and arm Kurdish fighters to defeat the Islamic State, which controls a huge swath of territory in Iraq and Syrian and has waged attacks throughout the world.
Fiorina said Saturday that she is angry and outraged over the attacks, mostly because Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t do enough to stop the growth of the Islamic State group. “I assure you: The day that I become president will be the day that we turn this around and begin rebuilding the armed forces of the United States”, he said, CNN reported earlier this month.
The businesswoman focused on the Islamic terrorist attacks which rocked Paris on Friday.
“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, under her watch, decided politics above the security of our country and the stability and security of the world”, he said.
New Jersey Gov Chris Christie recalled the September 11, 2001, attacks and said he’s afraid that Americans have forgotten the fear and risk they felt afterward.
The second day of the Sunshine Summit included speeches from Sen.
Several Republican presidential candidates took to social media and interviews to criticize the president for his comments about the terrorist group as well as his foreign policy strategy in recent years. “And people are dying because this President refuses to face the truth”. Rand Paul, who said more scrutiny is needed of “refugees, visitors and students” entering the U.S.to determine whether anyone is here “to do us harm”.
He says he tried to get an amendment to bolster such screening of foreigners as part of an immigration bill sponsored by Florida Sen. On issues of national security, the GOP candidates have said the United States needs to take a more aggressive stance against global terrorism, with many saying they would commit more troops to fighting ISIS and cracking down on US border security.
Ted Cruz on Saturday said that the terrorist bloodbath in Paris underscored the failures of President Obama’s anti-war stance and his timid foreign policy.
The Republican presidential contender warned that ISIS could attack the U.S.
Trump was at an event in Texas on Saturday.
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“What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them”, he said in a statement that drew heavy criticism from a handful of Republicans, Santorum included.
