Republican presidential candidates joined issue with frontrunner Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from coming to the U.S., with Senator Ted Cruz citing the example of India to assert all Muslims were not jihadists.
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There was no such love on display from Trump’s GOP rival Jeb Bush who called the real estate mogul a “chaos candidate who would be a chaos president” during the CNN debate in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday night.
Nine Republican presidential candidates took the stage Tuesday night for a debate that focused nearly exclusively on foreign policy. Rubio has accused Cruz of weakening the government’s ability to track terrorists because he voted in favor of legislation to eliminate the National Security Agency’s bulk phone-records collection program and replace it with a more restrictive effort to keep the records in phone companies’ hands. National Review editor Rich Lowry tweeted, “Rubio v Cruz was the main event”. “He’s doing a commercial where he uses what he said last night but he doesn’t put what I said to him”. “And I don’t think you’d be having the kind of problems that you’re having right now”.
On the war against ISIS, Trump’s answer was to repeat variations on “we have to be much tougher” and to completely contradict his previous stance that the USA should “let Russian Federation fight ISIS in Syria”.
When asked if they would support Trump for president if he wins the Republican nomination, an overwhelming 73 percent say they will, while just 20 percent say they won’t.
‘He said that very simply because he has failed in his campaign. “That’s one of the things you do now in political discourse”. Trump has maintained a sizable lead in various public opinion polls.
“And we need to have a leader that is progressive”, declared Bush.
Donald Trump didn’t exactly make the debate stage great again.
“I think that I would probably get along with him very well”, Trump said of Putin in October on CBS’s “60 Minutes”. Cruz said. After the debate, the recent terror scares in Southern California were a big part of the discussion in the GOP debate spin room.
“He looks at the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and sees that we have a performer, a performer who hasn’t delivered”, Diaz said. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina and Rand Paul.
But Rubio isn’t letting up, saying Thursday that Cruz shouldn’t get a free pass on the amendment to grant legal status because of his explanation of legislative maneuvering.
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While highlighting the differences between his and Rubio’s border security plans, Cruz lightened the mood with a light hearted reference to Trump’s proposed border wall.
