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Cruz, not Trump, polls well with El Paso County Republicans

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who is seeking the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, is coming to Anderson on Saturday. The policy crafted by the Bush administration did not support “amnesty” however, it provided a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as long as they went to the “back of the line” in the process to get a green card.

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Cruz, on the same page as Paul in his reservations about regime change, came closest when he said “Obama, Clinton, and far too many Republicans” want to topple Syrian leader Bashar Assad. “I don’t know if that’s Saturday morning or Sunday morning”, Bush said in response to a question over why he felt he was better equipped than Trump to deal with worldwide figures like Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“He’s just fine. Don’t worry about it”, Trump said when asked whether Cruz had the temperament to be president.

“You’re never going to be President of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency”, Bush said. “You need to have the capability do it. We’re losing that capability”. Cruz and Rubio have gone back and forth recently as both ascended in the polls.

Asked about border security, Cruz smiled and said he would build a wall and have “Donald pay for it”, a reference to Trump’s wealth and his signature plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. Despite his strength on the campaign trail, Trump again struggled to demonstrate understanding of the issues, notably national security.

But in Tuesday’s debate, he said unequivocally he had never – and would never – support legalizing them in any way. “Cruz unequivocally – unequivocally – does not support legalization”, Sweet told reporters. Cruz defended his vote for a new law requiring the government to request call data from telephone companies instead of collecting the information on its own, saying the National Security agency can now access more phone numbers. “There is nothing that we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before”.

A new law, called the USA Freedom Act, was passed in June with broad, bi-partisan support. It ordered the NSA to end bulk collection after a six-month transition that expired last week. The extremist group claimed responsibility for the November 13 attacks in Paris, and one of the shooters in California pledged allegiance to the group on Facebook shortly before she and her husband shot and killed 14 people at a holiday party.

On the war against ISIS, Trump’s answer was to repeat variations on “we have to be much tougher” and to completely contradict his previous stance that the USA should “let Russian Federation fight ISIS in Syria”.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, meanwhile, also doubled down on numerous comments he made Tuesday, calling the ongoing dispute in the Middle East “World War III”. Yes, the candidates have websites and there are other sources where those details are available, but how many voters in the TV age will take the time to search for them? “What we should do is be very vigilant, find out who did that, but I thought, frankly, closing the entire system with those hundreds of thousands of students, that was very, very tough”.

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“Lately I’ve been just trying to ignore, because he just gets me so angry”. That’s an nearly seven-minute gap between him and Ohio Gov. John Kasich – who had the least time at exactly nine minutes.

Trump Cruz in spotlight for upcoming Republican debate