He did spar with Texas senator Ted Cruz last night over the NSA bulk data correction program that just expired. And Americans citizens are understandably more concerned than they were three weeks ago about a possible terrorist attack US soil. IS fighters are holed up in a variety of cities, amid civilians, raising questions about how he could direct a carpet bombing that only singles out the enemy. Lindsey Graham on the Islamic State. With all due respect to Donald Trump, he didn’t bring this issue up. In a word, no. An open border allows people to travel freely or with very few restriction between two countries. Trump is Trump-and his followers could care less how Trump does in debates.
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Johnson has said that during the 2015 budget year that ended in September, about 330,000 people were caught crossing the Mexican border illegally, a near 40-year low in border arrests. “I know you’re trying to build up your energy, Jeb, but it’s not working”, Trump said before suggesting Bush was too soft on illegal immigration and lacked the strength needed to be president. However, he’s also sent troops to Iraq to help train and assist local forces and recently approved sending special operations forces into Syria.
Republican presidential candidates, from left, John Kasich, Carly…
As in previous skirmishes, Rubio artfully dodged most jabs, but immigration remains an issue competitors perceive as his big weakness among the base. Nidal Hasan, who perpetrated the 2009 Fort Hood shootings that killed 13 people, was not only an American but an Army major.
“If you’re in favor of World War III, you’ve got your candidate, ” Paul said.
THE FACTS: He won’t, because he died in 1999. “I know the king of Jordan”.
CRUZ: “The problem is because of political correctness, the Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone’s cell phones and emails and not focus on the bad guys, and political correctness is killing people”.
Trump’s proposal to block Muslims from entering the nation drew swift rebukes from some of his competitors, but a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Monday found that 59 percent of Republicans supported the ban, while 38 percent opposed it. The proposal is markedly less popular with the nation as a whole; the poll found 60 percent of Americans rejected the ban while 39 percent supported it. Keane retired long before Obama took office.
“It will push the Muslim world and the Arab world away from us at a time when we need to engage with them and to be able to create a strategy to destroy ISIS”.
THE FACTS: They’ve been asked.
Luntz notes that Christie’s attack on Cruz and Rubio as Senate debaters who operated in a consequence-free environment was the highest polling remark of the evening at his focus group.
“We are not talking about isolation; we’re talking about security”, he said.
It’s also unclear whether looking at the Facebook pages of the shooters in the California attacks would have prevented the attacks. “These are public places, and folks are invited to come”, he said. After the attacks, Facebook did find a profile under an alias linked to Malik with a post pledging her allegiance to the Islamic State. He declared, “I have never supported legalization and I do not intend to support legalization”.
We want to know that our leader will do whatever it takes in a time of war to keep us safe, but do we really want to hear them say that they’re “OK with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians”?
Cruz insisted the new law gives the government more access to cellphones and other technology terrorists are more likely to use – a contention Rubio disputed. That tool we lost: the metadata tool.
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A new law, called the USA Freedom Act, passed in June with broad, bipartisan support. Ingraham asked Christie about Americans concerned over the prospects of getting bogged down in another Middle East war. Rubio is correct in this regard.
