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Jeb Bush takes on Donald Trump
Last night’s GOP debate in Las Vegas arrived at just the right moment to spotlight an important conversation on national security and foreign policy.
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“The Democrats have the advantage that they can talk about a small directional shift from the Obama administration”, said Jon Alterman, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The money he raised earlier this year was supposed to scare off challengers. The former Governor of Florida called him a “chaos candidate” saying he would also be a “chaos president”.
Cruz, the new front-runner in Iowa according to some polls, encountered a GOP field on Tuesday night that was ready to attack the freshman senator, who for months has sought to avoid those profile-raising, politically risky exchanges.
And that, essentially, was that. I mean, endless debates about how many angels on the head of a pin from people who’ve never had to make a consequential decision in an executive position.
So in addition to taking away one of our most effective intelligence capabilities – tracking terrorists online – Trump would rather close it to terrorists, something he thinks he can do because, of course, the Internet is “ours”.
Mr Bush was the only candidate who tried a head-on charge against Mr Trump, although the exchanges often sounded more like childish squabbles than serious differences of opinions.
“I know you’re trying to build up your energy, Jeb, but it’s not working very well”, he fired off. “Donald, you’re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency”. While there’s little appetite among GOP candidates for the sweeping military intervention and nation-building Bush championed, most are wary of being pegged as isolationists, particularly given Americans’ heightened fears of terrorism following attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
He twice derided Trump’s comment a while back that he got his foreign policy advice from television shows, saying, “I don’t know if that’s Saturday morning or Sunday morning”.
In the latest CNN/ORC national Republican poll, released at the start of the month, Bush stood at 3% support and Trump had 36% support.
To get the larger numbers, Cruz appears to be combining deportations with arrests made by the Border Patrol in the previous administrations, the institute says. 12 million. Do you know how many illegal aliens, George W. Bush deported? As it is, however, he was the victor – but with a victory that will likely prove hollow. We’ll support you, but you can’t come to our country.’ I mean literally, how do you tell the Jordanians or the Saudis or the Turks or the Egyptians, ‘We want you on our team.
Mr Cruz and Mr Rubio clashed throughout the evening, each trying to fight on terrain they view as more advantageous.
Rubio immediately criticized Cruz for discussing details of the new law. And what has been said over and over again, what the intelligence community told Congress, was that the USA Freedom Act expanded their ability to target terrorists. He also said he thinks this debate was the best one and doesn’t feel like he was being attacked. Whether it was Rubio on immigration, Cruz on data collection or Rand Paul on shooting down a Russian plane, they’ll all have to hope that at some point thoughtful substance edges out declarative blurting as this season’s most effective rhetorical device.
“I’m always puzzled by his attack on this issue”, Rubio said in the debate.
Winner: Both senators are gifted debaters and held their own.
Cruz has been on the defensive in the days after the debate on the issue, and on Thursday, the Texas senator looked to regain momentum after increased attention on his record.
RUBIO: He is and so are those that voted for it. There were some that voted for it because they wanted to keep it alive and they were afraid the whole program would expire. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) get traction and allowed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to vault into second place in New Hampshire. There was … an argument about immigration between three first-term senators, and we’ve been talking about immigration for 25 years. Who will you be keeping your eye out for?
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“What we want in a leader is someone with judgement, not someone who is so reckless”, he said. But that’s the competition in the Republican race right now, and Christie was focused on making his pitch to voters.