During the segment, O’Reilly also confronted Trump over his citation of President Dwight Eisenhower’s deportation strategy at Tuesday night’s debate. “They’re doing high-fives in the Clinton campaign right now when they hear this”.
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“Believe me when I tell you, Mr. Trump, that was brutal what they did to those people to kick them back”, O’Reilly said.
“The big question that hangs over me as I saw this debate is what the hell is holding Ben Carson up?” He didn’t hurt himself, but he got the lesser of the exchange with Paul and his attempt to defend his nonsensical tax plan was not very convincing. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said afterward, “There’s a broad spectrum within our party (and) there are pretty big differences in America in terms of these issues”. “Let’s actually cut government spending”. The comparison he tried to draw between Washington, Iowa and Washington, DC was so awkward that he didn’t even bother finishing it. There was one section of the debate where both Rubio and Kasich agreed with him, but made their points more cogently.
In a statement, Democratic National Committee spokesperson Christina Freundlich said Rubio “is offering no solutions to provide relief for our country’s immigrants”. “We either have a country or we don’t have a country”, he said. “They’re going to have to go out”.
Trump, for so long the focal point of the Republican primary, was more subdued than usual. “That’s the problem with this”. “We have to win the presidency, and the way you win the presidency is have practical plans”.
This time, only eight candidates participated in the main debate, down from the previous 10 candidates.
And that seemed to cover the span of thinking on climate change at this debate. And despite a few suggestions that the debate might feature another round of conflict with Sen. Trump has 23 percent of the voter’s preference, while Senator Marco Rubio is in third with 12 percent.
Rubio offered another confident performance, deftly inserting pieces of his stump speech into effective answers on the economy and foreign policy. Sen.
And none of the candidates – or moderators – engaged Rubio when the discussion shifted to immigration, considered a key vulnerability among conservatives who oppose Rubio’s plan to give immigrants in the country illegally a pathway to citizenship.
Then he pointed to Sen. But his noninterventionism and skepticism about military spending leaves him out of sync with many voters and activists in his party.
Rubio also called for a greater emphasis on vocational education, arguing that there’s more demand for welders than philosophers, the latter a vocation he’s often poked at.
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Bush, who was supposed to have this race in the pocket and for whom political epitaphs are already being written, noted how Trump’s heated rhetoric on immigration was driving the growing Hispanic voting population into Democratic arms. The GOP front-runner fought back against recent media criticism and attempted to compare his situation to the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi terrorist attack.
