Hurt in New Hampshire, Rubio crawled – flew charter, actually – to SC and his primary mission was to trying to break the “narrative”. At the debate, that strategy lasted only through his comments about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead on Saturday. Dickerson corrected him, saying that in 1988, Justice Anthony Kennedy had been confirmed, though he was nominated the previous year. I thought this might have been my best performance.
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“It’s called delay, delay, delay”, he said.
Information for this article was contributed by Julie Pace and Will Weissert of The Associated Press; by Sean Sullivan, Jenna Johnson, Philip Rucker, Ed O’Keefe and Jose A. DelReal of The Washington Post; and by John McCormick, James Nash and Kevin Cirilli of Bloomberg News.
MARCO RUBIO: “We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document”.
Rubio added, “I do not believe the president should appoint someone”.
“I don’t know how he knows what I said on Univision – he doesn’t speak Spanish”, Rubio shot back. “I hope people come out and support him”. Conley said he thinks Trump’s lead will diminish in the wake of the debate.
When asked if he would be willing to cut out the bad language, Trump answered that on “occasion, in order to sort of really highlight something, I’ll use a profanity”. “You fight ISIS first”. You have to knock out ISIS. “That’s Jeb’s special interests and lobbyists talking”. Lindsey Graham, a former presidential candidate.
Bush hit Trump back saying: “This comes from a guy who gets his foreign policies from the shows”. We’re living in unsafe times. Trump is trailed by Ted Cruz, who polled at 20%. “He enjoys it. And I’m glad he’s happy about it. I am sick and exhausted of him going after my family”. My dad [former President George H.W. Bush] is the greatest man alive in my mind.
He said that while Trump was “building a TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus” to keep the nation safe. “And I’m proud of what he did”.
Even if their vote were combined in SC, the three would be running 12 points behind current frontrunner Donald Trump.
“That’s not keeping us safe”. This is just nuts.
The terrorist attacks of 2001 happened because Bush’s predecessor Bill Clinton failed to kill Osama bin Laden when he had the chance, he suggested.
Ben Carson, who’s been lagging in the polls and struggling to get into the conversation, was happy just to have a more prominent turn at the mic. “You can not have a strong country without strong families”.
When Cruz referred to a Rubio interview on immigration reform on a Spanish television, he said that the Texas Senator does not know Spanish.
Cruz responded in Spanish, saying, “Vato, si quieres dicelo ahora mismo, dicelo ahora en Español si quieres”.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is fighting to stay in the mix in SC. They come out of an act of love, whether you like it or not.
“He lied”, Trump said about the last Republican to win the White House.
“You want to talk about weakness?” “It’s weak to disparage Hispanics”, Bush argued.
Ted Cruz, calling him the “single biggest liar” on the stage.
Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush also had a number of supporters in the crowd.
Trump was jeered lustily by the audience in Greenville, South Carolina, a state where the Bush family is popular with Republicans. He tore down the Berlin Wall.
“My wife tells me I’m wrong all the time”, Trump joked.
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Mr Trump dominated the bulk of the conversation in the first half, with 42 per cent of the mentions associated with the hashtag #GOPDebate, according to Twitter data. “I will not do it again”.
