Bush’s offensive against Trump may not pay dividends: Only 9 percent said Bush won the debate, while 30 percent – a plurality – said they thought he performed the worst.
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Bush, while he may have had an above average night attacking Trump, has little chance of stealing or re-engaging support to bolster his measly 3% national standing. Trump, meanwhile, as he has done before, drew on one of his favorite talking points and promised to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
As nine Republican presidential aspirants in their fifth and final debate scrabbled for the pole position ahead of primaries, a lot of them were united in pandering to the fear of Islamism that has gripped the U.S after the recent terror strikes in Paris and California.
During the main debate that followed among the top GOP presidential hopefuls, front-runner Donald Trump pledged he would remain loyal to the party and not run as an independent, WND reported.
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”. I will say I was very concerned when I (and likely the rest of the world) realized that Trump has no idea what the nuclear triad is or how it works.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, completed after Trump’s comments, showed him leading the field with support of 33 percent of Republican voters.
“They’re not just whispering to us”, he said.
Trump said his proposal was a matter of security, not discrimination.
Republican presidential candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is exploring steps to take his feud with Donald Trump to a whole new level.
Senate Intelligence Committee leaders said Wednesday they aren’t investigating whether Texas Sen.
Donald Trump had on Tuesday suggested the radical step of killing family members of ISIS.
Rubio argued Cruz is trying to leave himself some “wiggle room” by using the word “intend”. “He would not be the Commander in Chief we need to keep our country safe”. “And I think he’s capable”, Blake said of Rubio.
“If elected, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists”, Cruz said.
“Marco knows what he is saying isn’t true”, Cruz said.
The other candidates in Tuesday’s debate were ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Ohio Governor John Kasich, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Rubio sparred with Ted Cruz, who is also a Cuban American senator, over immigration. “Marco has more of an allegiance to [Democratic New York Sen.] Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy”.
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Days after saying he’d “close” parts of the Internet to battle ISIS propaganda, Trump in the debate said that what he really wants is “getting our smartest and getting our best to infiltrate their Internet”.
