The fifth and final GOP debate of 2015 also further exposed Donald Trump as the shallow, thin-skinned and ill-tempered candidate he is, completely unsuitable to be commander in chief. In Las Vegas, I think he played it well.
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Donald Trump didn’t exactly make the debate stage great again.
Bush still believes in the old world order, where the serious beats the ridiculous and policy wins over entertainment. “And I think he’s capable”, Blake said of Rubio.
And even then, it might be a lot longer than that before the true anti-Trump emerges, if ever.
“Hey, look, he’s trying so hard, he’s a very nice person, Jeb, and he’s trying so hard and he has to do that”. “I didn’t watch it”, said Burr, a North Carolina Republican. Bush was more aggressive than in previous debates, and Trump lashed out at him, calling his campaign “a disaster” at one point.
“The Committee is not investigating anything said during last night’s Republican Presidential debate, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, and Vice Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said in a statement”. “It’s Hillary Clinton. And it wasn’t, I think, in the interest of our party or of our country to get into these little minor dustups and scraps that these guys get into, talking about the petty little things they’re discussing among each other”.
Yet with little more than six weeks before primary voting begins, Bush is struggling for relevancy in a presidential election that has begun to leave him behind. This is the last GOP debate of the year, with U.S. Sen. If the Republican National Committee won’t do its job to control the number of debates, the candidates should collectively decide one is enough.
During the debate, Rubio appeared to raise concerns that Cruz’s remarks were classified.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Paul likewise offered sharply contrasting positions on foreign policy.
Behind the scenes, top aides have looked into whether Bush would still qualify to be on the ballots in all 50 states because some states require a loyalty pledge in order to be on the ballot. The moderators have a responsibility to zero in on what specifically the candidates intend to do and how they are going to accomplish it. It’s not as though the candidates lack proposals on entitlements, taxes, spending and health care.
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“Governor Bush made explicitly clear on Tuesday his view that Donald Trump would be a chaos president who would be wrong for the country”. Time will tell if ratings for that event will be, as Trump would say, “yuuge”.
