Donald Trump’s initial slam on illegal immigrants has turned into polling gold for the Republican frontrunner, as a new survey finds that GOP voters overwhelmingly believe he has the best plan to deal with the issue. Marco Rubio of Florida emerged the victor, and a several of them said they changed their support from other Republican presidential candidates, including Ben Carson and Jeb Bush, to Rubio.
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Citing the candidates’ differences on taxes, foreign policy, military spending and immigration, Republican Sen.
“You also feel it in our society, where a growing number of people feel out of place in their own country, because those of us who hold traditional values are stigmatized as haters and bigots”, he told the crowd.
“If they split the vote”, MacManus said, “that makes it easier for someone else”.
The Comb-over King, of course, bristled and once again called upon his oh-so-intimidating godlike attitude to declare, “I’ve built an unbelievable company worth billions and billions of dollars, I don’t have to hear from this man”. “We can’t continue to be the policeman of the world”.
“We have to get smart”.
But the most-shared tweets of the night came not from accounts linked to the GOP candidates, but from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders). Rubio was a distant third then with 6 percent while Cruz claimed 3 behind former CEO Carly Fiorina’s 5.
“Business issues can be riveting, because it wasn’t about us, it was about them”, he said. Senator Marco Rubio, one of the people who wants to be that nominee, was on this program earlier in the week and he made an intricate statement. “The president has no strategy, our allies in the region do not trust us”.
Trump was attacked for his immigration plan, which envisions building a wall on the border with Mexico and rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants. There was little interaction among the candidates at first, and the moderators didn’t attempt to get them to engage each other, a notable shift after Republicans criticized the aggressiveness of the hosts in the last debate.
“That’s the problem with this”. “And even having this conversation sends a powerful signal – they’re doing high-fives in the Clinton campaign right now”.
Pollsters and pundits had different opinions on the candidates following the debate. “At a minimum, this buys him more time to reset and try to advance”, according to Reuters.
Rubio, 44, has done well in preference polls lately, but he still lags behind Trump and Carson.
“It is not complicated that on the seminal fight over amnesty in Congress, the Gang of Eight bill, that I stood with the American people and led the fight to defeat it”, Cruz said.
The poll showed that Cruz and Trump are tied among Texas Republican primary voters at 27 percent, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 13 percent.
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Carson Bio Largely Unquestioned: Coming into the debate, Carson was expected to face tough questions about certain discrepancies in his life story, which has served as a point of inspiration long before he became a presidential candidate.
