The first debate will include Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, and Rick Santorum. Anyone who has followed the campaign knows that Trump has delighted in citing his lead in the polls, and Wednesday’s debate could generate even more fireworks with Trump on the offensive.
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On the main stage are: Trump, the celebrity billionaire; Carson; Sen.
Next, we’ll have the wives debating. Will he be more willing to throw down this time?
There’s nothing Trump hates more than losing, so he will surely go after Carson, hard. According to a Quinnipiac University survey released September 11, 27% of likely Republican voters in Iowa, a key early battleground state for presidential candidates, would have voted for Trump, while 21% said they would have voted for Carson.
How this duel plays out could potentially effect the state of the race.
“One of my messages to candidates is to… rethink their positions”.
How will Trump handle being No. 2? So the stakes may be higher for Carson to come out as the victor of any showdown in weed-town.
In the last week alone, Jeb Bush slashed his campaign’s payroll, hunkered down with his family to assess the health of his candidacy and got off track at a Nevada event promoting Hispanic upward mobility by commenting on the relative hotness of television’s “Supergirl”.
Most political experts don’t think Bush is on the verge of dropping out.
Fox News attracted 24 million viewers for the first Republican session in August – three times the expected audience – making it the most-watched presidential primary debate in history.
I want to see what he’ll say next… that’s the Trump factor that just got more unpredictable now that-at least in one national poll and two in Iowa-he’s looking up at Carson. They approached graduate students, deaf students, business students, student veterans and students interested in social justice and climate change, said Joseph Soto, CU Student Government president of external affairs.
Cruz’s theory is that Trump and Carson won’t get the nomination and he’s the only candidate in the field who best represents what frustrated conservatives want in the next president.
Harwood Criticized GOP Candidates Who Have “Shied Away From Economic Populism”. “It’s going to be a two-hour debate, but you don’t know what you don’t know – you don’t know what you’re going to need to know walking into it”. With a crowded, prime time debate stage threatening to limit airtime, the Republicans have little room for error, their delicate task being one of projecting empathy with an economically insecure electorate while also offering concrete solutions.
After the last GOP debate, Carly Fiorina was supposed to skyrocket to the top of the polls after her outstanding performance. And she did shoot up – for a brief period.
But she’s plateaued since then, and she needs another post-debate bump to get back on top.
Hale said Trump has slipped nationally because he hasn’t been able to match “the intensity of his early attacks, so his momentum has slipped”. Both are capable orators and their campaigns have been praised by the media. A great deal of the Beltway punditocracy believes when the dust settles, Rubio will be the Republican nominee.
With Jeb Bush still flailing and Scott Walker back in Wisconsin, dismantling democracy, it’s gotten so disheartening for the party’s traditional wing that conservative commentator Ross Douthat just concluded his column supporting a Marco Rubio ascent with a winking plea for Mitt Romney to enter the race. Perhaps Wednesday night they can begin to make their case for frontrunner status – or, alternatively, they will perform well but continue to coast, waiting for Carson and Trump implode. Ted Cruz of Texas; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; Ohio Gov. John Kasich; and Sen.
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For most of the month of October, Paul has been on death watch. At this point it is unclear what, if anything, could cause Trump’s poll numbers to drop after they have stayed strong despite several of Trump’s controversial comments about women and minorities.
