Sen. Ted Cruz is under investigation after he potentially revealed classified information during the CNN Republican presidential debate.
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Last week, Trump stunned the field by proposing to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a move his rivals assailed only to find many Republican voters backed the idea and Trump’s lead in opinion polls grew.
Here & Now’s GOP political analyst Paris Dennard speaks with host Jeremy Hobson about the debate’s highlights and what it may mean as the candidates head into 2016. Bush’s points were completely lost in the fascination with Trump’s mugging. “You have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families”, he said.
Paul came into last night’s debate struggling in the polls. “I’m not going to enforce it.’ You enforce the law, and federal immigration law provides that if someone is here illegally and apprehended, that they should be sent back to their home country”.
Trump’s unpredictable and controversial rhetoric has repeatedly put him at centre stage in the Republican race.
Earlier, a pre-debate forum featured four other candidates: former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and former NY governor George Pataki.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are topping Republican polls right now.
After promising not to leave the party, now Trump’s calling for unity. He said the NSA previously only had access to up to 30 percent of phone numbers under the U.S. Patriot Act.
Indeed, those trailing behind him spent much time going after each other rather than attacking Trump, perhaps being hesitant to tangle with a candidate who has a talent for what critics call trash talking.
Mr. Bush, who defended his brother and former president George W. Bush’s West Asia policy, which included coalitions with friendly Arabs, said: “If we push the Muslim world away, we can’t win this war”.
Though many Republican leaders have criticized Trump’s Muslim ban, most candidates on Tuesday appeared reluctant to directly confront Trump on the issue.
“I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization”, Cruz told the Florida senator, who had pressed the Texan to say whether he would “rule out ever legalizing people that are in this country now”. If Mr Cruz edged ahead in the exchanges, it was only because the next person to speak in both case was someone more closely aligned with the Texas senator’s positions – Senator Rand Paul on surveillance and Mr Trump on immigration.
Mr Cruz and Mr Rubio clashed throughout the evening, each trying to fight on terrain they view as more advantageous.
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Burr noted that he had not actually seen the exchange in question.
