In a dominating performance, Rubio, the USA senator from Florida, swatted away Jeb Bush when the former Florida governor attacked his attendance record in the Senate.
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This week’s debate also competed against the second game of the World Series.
On Thursday morning, CNBC’s John Harwood, a co-moderator, tweeted a picture of himself with Christie.
Internet bloggers using Twitter noted that Harwood had written anti-Republican and pro-Democrat stories – and tweeted the stories and their warnings to RNC chairman Reince Priebus.
“That’s not true”, Carson said, without evidence. Besides the line of questioning, a few campaigns are resisting lengthy debates.
The next televised debate of Republican is scheduled for November 10.
Picking up on a bash-the-media theme from Wednesday night’s CNBC debate, Christie’s campaign also sent out a fund-raising email linking to the editorial. “If you’re going to accept pay, you ought to show up for work”. Dubbing the GOP frontrunner’s (RCP average) candidacy as fiction, as right out of a “comic book“.
“It’s not a very nicely asked question”, Trump protested.
Question for those of you who watched last night’s debate: what did you think of the questions the moderators asked?
Instead of explaining themselves or clarifying their previous statements, the candidates stubbornly insisted they were right and the moderators were wrong.
Republican displeasure with perceived media bias is nothing new, but giving it voice nearly always sparks a GOP crowd.
“The audience roared its disdain for these so-called ‘journalists, ‘ and all of America heard it”, MRC president Brent Bozell said after the debate. Cruz’s answers were detailed, principled, and clearly heartfelt and, as the other young Hispanic conservative on the stage, he seems more and more like the co-front-runner with Marco Rubio (at least to those of us who do not believe that Donald Trump or Ben Carson will end up with the nomination).
To be fair, two other CNBC folks, Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli, asked solid policy-oriented questions aimed at eliciting real information rather than a “gotcha” moment. Cruz asked, citing “fawning” questions at the Democratic debate. This is not a cage match. “I like to be unpredictable”, Trump said. John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? “You can campaign – or just resign and let someone else take the job”.
Jeb Bush is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee. (There had already been several questions about taxes.) “How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?”
Mike Huckabee objected to Harwood asking him whether Trump had the moral authority to lead the country, and Trump chimed in that it was “such a nasty question”. Perhaps we will look back on this as the moment when the former star of “The Apprentice” fired a state. Quintanilla’s question about whether the federal government should regulate fantasy football fell flat.
But Christie interjected, to the approval of the audience: “Are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football?” When it began to subside, Christie continued calling out Harewood. “Debates are supposed to be to get to know the candidates, what is behind them”.
“I’m not anxious about my finances, I’m anxious about the finances of everyday Americans”, Rubio said. “As I said last night, I guess someone’s convinced him otherwise”, Rubio told CNN. Hart said this and other forums and polls suggested Republican voters “have done a better job of figuring out what they are against rather than what they are for”.
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Trump at the time called Bernie Sanders a socialist and a communist, saying “he’s gonna tax you people at 90 percent”.
