But Rubio also parried New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday, who knocked both first-term senators comparing them to President Barack Obama, who was a freshman senator when he took office.
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Anti-Muslim rhetoric: When CNN host and moderator Wolf Blitzer pressed Trump on his recent anti-Muslim rhetoric, including his statement that all Muslims should be barred from emigrating to the United States, Trump defended his stance by arguing that “our country is out of control” and “people are pouring across the southern border”. Trump complained at one point, after Bush interjected during an exchange on the Islamic State.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson refused to weigh in on surveillance.
“The Republican front-runner said that if Bush doesn’t agree to back him as nominee it would do more harm to the former Florida governor’s own flagging presidential campaign”.
In an interview after the debate, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said nothing had changed between Trump calling Cruz a “maniac” and the debate, adding that the two candidates have had a “great relationship for a long time”. They flashed their foreign policy credentials and targeted each others’ weaknesses in the debate that lasted more than two hours and focused exclusively on foreign policy and national security.
The Republicans running for their party’s presidential nomination will meet tonight in Las Vegas for the final debate of the year. “But I did”, he said Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day”.
Trump, 69, shot back: “Oh yeah, and you’re a tough guy, Bush”, noting Bush’s falling standing in the polls and his resulting move down toward the end of the debate stage. Marco Rubio on the thorny issue that has cleaved the Republican Party.
“I know you’re trying to build up your energy, Jeb, but’s it not working very well”, said the businessman, repeating his regular “low energy” jab at the former governor. The Texas senator is on the rise, particularly in Iowa’s kickoff caucuses, and is casting himself as a more electable alternative to Trump, while Rubio is seeking to straddle the divide between his party’s establishment and more conservative wings. You interrupted me. Are you going to apologize, Jeb? And we now learn that the DHS says “No, we can’t check their social media”. “And then on second, we should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS”.
“There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we were not allowed to do before”, Rubio said.
“I personally do not believe that it’s good for America to have millions of people permanently living here who can never become Americans, who want to be Americans, who love America, but just can’t become Americans”, Rubio said.
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Front-runner Donald Trump stood firmly behind his provocative call for banning Muslims from the United States, saying, “We are not talking about religion, we are talking about security”. Trump also complained that the undercard debate, which featured the bottom four candidates’ also heavily emphasized Trump questions.
