Republican Party presidential hopefuls gathered in Las Vegas on Tuesday night for their fifth and final televised debate of 2015.
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The debate mostly focused on national security.
Support across the USA for the former Florida governor has dropped below 5%, according to a Real Clear Politics average of the latest polls, while front-runner Donald Trump continues to widen his lead.
“We’re not talking about isolation; we’re talking about security”. We can’t defeat ISIS.
A good debate gives you insight into the political courage and skill of a candidate, or lack of it. Other than Jeb Bush, who stumbled through some weak moments, no one Tuesday had the nerve to take on the front-runner. “And so, maybe Jeb and I were listening to different things”, he stated. He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign.
He added, “So Donald, you know, is great at the one-liners, but he’s a chaos candidate”. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio also squared up to each other.
“I really don’t want Jeb’s endorsement because he is a low energy person and he does not represent strength, power and stamina, which are qualities our country desperately needs”, Trump said in the statement.
During the debate, Cruz said he voted against the defense spending bill because he wanted it to remove the federal government’s authority to detain US citizens without due process.
Chris Christie threatened to shoot down Russian planes if Russian planes violated a proposed no-fly zone. Hours before the debate was to begin, officials in Los Angeles closed all schools after an emailed threat that was later deemed a hoax. ‘He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe’.
During the debate Trump questioned the fairness of the debate since so numerous questions prompted candidates to pick a fight with the frontrunner. “What we should do is be very vigilant, find out who did that, but I thought, frankly, closing the entire system with those hundreds of thousands of students, that was very, very tough”. “This is craziness because we are at war”, said neurosurgeon Ben Carson. And people are anxious about if somebody’s going to say that I’m Islamophobic or what have you. “I wouldn’t second guess the superintendent making the decision”.
“I would be a lot more anxious if he was in fact a member of the committee, but to my understanding this subject matter was not one where any members outside of the committee had been briefed on it”, Burr said.
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Bush, who has lagged in opinion polls, attacked Trump for a lack of depth and seriousness and called him a “chaos candidate” who was adept at one-liners but naive on policy issues.
