The same was true during last night’s debate, and for good reason, said Norman Ornstein, a fellow with the American Enterprise Institute. The insurgency against Queen Hillary (age 67), a person of modest gifts who married well, is led by a 73-year-old socialist, while Democratic Party leaders urge 72-year-old Joe Biden-a youngster!-to get into the race to head off Sanders’s challenge. He also pointed to his home state of Iowa, where 40 per cent of Republican voters are evangelical Christians. And not withstanding the ludicrous Trump sideshow, no viable candidate is polling above the low teens or could be said to have broken out of the pack.
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And though he believes Trump will maintain his front-runner status despite possibly dropping a few points, Hines said, “I don’t think there were any clear winners”. It will be preceded at 5 p.m.by an undercard event featuring the candidates that didn’t make the cut, and where Pittsburgh’s own Rick Santorum may wind up pitching his “up from the coalfields” story.
“I disliked the amount of flat out lies that were said by pretty much every candidate that was on the stage tonight”. He later lashed out at Kelly, who had asked reasonably when the longtime Democrat donor became a Republican, calling her a “bimbo” on Twitter.
Meanwhile, other analysts think they’ve located the party’s problems not at the presidential candidate level, but in Congress.
“It is not incredibly surprising it hasn’t been a key issue so far”, said Heather Taylor-Miesle, director of the NRDC Action Fund. “But it will be harder to ignore it when the candidates are trying to appeal to the mass public”.
Richard Fale, chair of the Honolulu County Republican Party, one of four major county organizations under the Hawaii Republican Party, says these debates bring fresh ideas and push the best candidates forward.
Many political observers and Latino groups have wondered whether the party will reposition itself on the issue of what to do with 11 million undocumented workers. Presidential nominations nearly always went to whoever had most patiently waited his turn in line.
They say some of the issues discussed here will be familiar topics for them in the coming months. The subtler differences highlighted by a debate can really sway support, and even the kind of highly engaged voters who are likely to watch a debate can have their minds changed. “We are a very Democratic state”. Fox News moderator Bill Hemmer asked Sen. Our panel on relationships between police and people they serve drew a large and diverse crowd.
Zesty attacks against the Clean Power Plan would be welcome but denying the facts of warming by saying “I’m not a scientist” is a step backward, said Sarah Hunt, an energy policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank that supports taxing carbon dioxide. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen.
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Of course, this is also providing to the candidates the freedom to direct themselves to only Republican voters, and allowing the candidates to ignore independents or possible crossover voters, in the first Republican candidates’ debate.
