CRUZ: “We will adopt commonsense reforms, No. 1, we’ll allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines that will drive down prices and expand the availability of low-priced catastrophic insurance”. In comments reported by ABC Online, Trump claimed that Islamist organisations were “thriving” as a direct result of the USA unwillingness to bring back waterboarding and other interrogation practices that were condemned as constituting torture in the wake of the second Iraq war.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio declined to say definitively whether he would reinstitute the use of waterboarding.
In an urgent bid to slow Rubio down ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie savaged the 44-year-old senator for never having made a “consequential decision”, lacking principled leadership on immigration and being unprepared for the presidency.
Trump intervened after rival Ted Cruz hesitated after being questioned about “enhanced interrogation techniques”.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would not employ waterboarding.
“I would bring back waterboarding and I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”, he said Saturday.
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“I happen to like Hillary Clinton, but I am astounded by some of the people that she has hired, including David Brock”, Sanders said, questioning his opponent’s judgment.
“You can rest assured that as commander in chief, I would use whatever enhanced interrogation methods we could to keep this country safe”.
Cruz would not rule out restoring waterboarding as president.
Trump in December called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on” – a proposal that was widely panned as Islamophobic by Republicans and Democrats alike.
Trump was out-brutalizing Cruz, who said he would only use waterboarding sparingly, in emergency scenarios.
CRUZ, defending his vow to “carpet bomb” to defeat the Islamic State: “When I say saturation carpet bombing, that is not indiscriminate”.
“That’s all of his donors and special interests out there”, Trump said, noting that many debate tickets go to party benefactors.
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Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is fighting to avoid joining that group. “We need leadership to solve it”.
