“Let’s have a moment of simple clarity: I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal immigrants”. Here you have two Senators accusing each other of double-talk and legislative sleight of hand-debating incremental steps toward fixing our broken immigration system-while the outsider business mogul speaks in clear, declarative sentences about building walls and mass deportations. Berman tried to clarify, but Jeb! assured him he had command of the question even if he had no clue what his campaign was doing.
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“Trump has kind of cracked the code of the Republican base that others haven’t figured out”, Kornacki said. Ted, you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally. “Who is he kidding?”
Republican U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump (L) responds to criticism from former Governor Jeb Bush (R) as Senator Ted Cruz (C) looks on during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada December 15, 2015.
After insisting that enough damage had been done and swearing off future insults toward Jeb Bush, Donald Trump on Friday returned to badgering his favorite presidential foe.
But the candidate he saw in Exeter was more aggressive and engaged than the “low-energy” Bush that frontrunner Donald Trump so often maligns.
“And for anyone who wonders, ‘Can we really, really secure the border?’ I got three words for you: Secretary Jeff Sessions”, Cruz said.
All the other candidates are afraid to take on Trump, because they don’t want to lose his followers. “That is not how we win”. But the fights made it a lot more exciting than anything we’re going to see next year. “Give me a little air”.
“He supports legalization, and I think his hope was once he got into the general election, to then start talking about legalization as a way to attract more voters”, Rubio said. That’s because he has tapped into a sense of anger and frustration among numerous Republican Party rank and file, which is something establishment candidates have failed to do.
And he continues to criticize Trump, and say Trump won’t be the Republican nominee. But there’s one thing about the dispute that’s very easy to grasp. “He doesn’t have much intellectual curiosity”.
KVIA reported that Bush continued that Trump’s repeated insulting of various groups was “deeply discouraging”, and that such rhetoric should be rejected on principle.
A driving factor behind the move was Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, a step that Bush denounced to Trump’s face at the debate.
The fading Marco Rubio campaign is foundering on the one-term, soon-to-be-has-been Florida legislator’s leading role in the Gang of Eight immigration fiasco.
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If Cruz’s position was unclear in 2013, he’s clarified it since, saying during Tuesday night’s debate that he hasn’t and “doesn’t intend” to support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.
