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Clinton is “coming for your wallet, everybody”, Christie told the crowd in a downtown theater.
Though he failed to make the main debate stage, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie felt like a frontrunner during the undercard Republican presidential debate on Tuesday as rivals took aim at his record in the Garden State. It’s the first time the network hosts a presidential debate – much less two of them – and it’s doing so with the Wall Street Journal. Jindal, Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. That mostly elicited praise from the analysts, even when Christie’s responses were used to deflect attention from the weaknesses in New Jersey’s financial health spelled out by Jindal, who aggressively pointed out the wide gap between Christie’s claims about what he’s done for the state’s economy and the reality. Lindsey Graham of SC brought noticeable foreign policy expertise into the conversation. “Don’t worry about Huckabee, Jindal”.
Despite what many saw as a strong performance in the last Republican debate, Christie was demoted to the “undercard” this time around due to poor polling numbers.
On taxes, Santorum discussed his flat, 20 percent rate for all businesses and individuals, while Christie said the richest Americans should pay 28 percent and the poorest should pay about 8 percent. He said tax returns could be done in 15 minutes.
The McClatchy-Marist results showed higher support for both Huckabee and Christie than the IBD poll, which was the oldest in the group and thus most likely to have been replaced had the McClatchy-Marist survey been publicly available earlier. “We get rid of the IRS”, Huckabee said. He then explained his plans to change the tax code and rein in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Santorum said he visits a manufacturing company once a week and finds open jobs with no one to fill them. Huckabee said. “Will we give them a good place to stay, a sandwich and medical benefits?” “And when you say ‘Janet yelling, ‘ I’m very familiar with what we need”.
“If you think that Mike Huckabee won’t be the kind of president who will cut back spending, or Chris Christie, or John Kasich, wait to see what Hillary Clinton will do to this country and how she will drown us in debt”, Christie said to loud applause in Milwaukee.
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At another point, Christie said, “Hillary Clinton is running so far left to try to catch up to her socialist opponent, Bernie Sanders, it’s hard to even see her anymore”. And here’s what I believe as a Republican, I believe the greatness of America is not in its government.
