Republican presidential candidate Sen. “Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rubio, saying they had ignored the actual question, on entitlements”.
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Chris Christie says in a new campaign ad that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be a third term of President Obama and that she’s one of the “architects” of the administration’s foreign policy.
Underscoring the split in the party that has defined the turbulent GOP primary, the more mainstream candidates on stage fought to edge their way into the debate. Ted Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president, telling his rival his birth in Canada leaves “a big question mark on your head”. “You can’t do that to the party”.
Cruz renewed his criticism of “New York values”, a coded questioning of Trump’s conservatism that elicited an unexpectedly emotional response from the real estate mogul about his hometown’s response to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
While Chrstie did set up a panel to review Common Core, that panel made very view recommendations about Common Core-meaning the status quo is still in place in New Jersey.
The exchanges signaled an end to months of relative friendliness between Trump and Cruz.
Thursday’s debate comes less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses kick off this year’s voting.
Christie continued that he hadn’t supported Sotomayor and didn’t write a check to Planned Parenthood. The senator said Christie gave money to Planned Parenthood, backed the Common Core academic standards and gun control bills. “We have a president of the United States who is undermining this country’s security and expanding the role of our government”.
The Associated Press took time during the debate to fact check numerous candidates statements.
Cruz was also on the defensive about his failure to disclose on federal election forms some $1 million in loans from Wall Street banks during his 2012 Senate campaign.
Trump said he wasn’t offended by Haley’s speech and argued his anger is justified. Marco Rubio said amid the wrangling between Trump and Cruz. “And I will gladly accept the mantle of anger”.
Trump also stuck with his controversial call for temporarily banning Muslims from the United States because of fear of terrorism emanating from overseas.
“The Constitution hasn’t changed – but the poll numbers have”, Cruz said. The candidates warned of dire risks to national security if a Democrat is elected to succeed Obama and challenged claims of recent economic gains.
Trying to spin his message, Cruz said “framing it another way, not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan, I’m just saying”.
Christie has shown no respect for the Office of the President, and he wasn’t man enough to tell President Barack Obama face to face what he thinks about him.
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Bush suggested the country was less safe under Obama and declared Clinton would be a “national security disaster”.
