And that, pretty much, summed up the humiliating nature of this undercard debate for candidates excluded from the main debate at 9pm, with an extra dash of sexist condescension for Mrs Fiorina, the only woman running for the Republican nomination.
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Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is known for staying relentlessly on message, and she stayed true to form during Fox News’s first round of debates Thursday. “That’s how I’ll debate her, on the issues”.
The accidental spoiler of her remarks coming out ahead of time didn’t dampen Fiorina’s night – she came from the debate as the widely declared victor after landing several hits on her opponents onstage, in the broader primary and the Democrats.
“Americans are exhausted of hearing this debate”, he said. Correspondent Tom Llamas was there as Trump landed in Cleveland, asking him if it was “true you did not prepare” for the debate to which the billionaire responded that had “been preparing all my life”. Like Fiorina, the former Texas governor also panned Trump on healthcare. Perry has a lot of substance and a terrific record.
Is he suggesting that that politicians and Washington D.C. are for sale?
Sen. Rick Santorum spoke after her, but the crowd was visibly less enthused.
The election issue most important to voters – by far, according to numerous surveys – is the economy and jobs. Graham said that he would push to discover more fossil energizes at home and utilize less and that America will work to end up vitality free.
He also called for a decrease in regulations implemented by the federal government, such as those from the Environmental Protection Agency, and called for the elimination of the death tax. There is more collaboration required between private sector companies and the public sector. “Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them”, Graham said.
Longtime South Carolina Sen. We were all saying wonderful things about you around the set, how you have done a great job this year in everything you’ve done and yet, you’re not going to be on the main stage tomorrow.
Jim Gilmore and George Pataki repeatedly reminded us they were Governors on 9/11, but what have they done since? “They should invite carly fiorina back for the 9 oclock debate”, former Republican presidential hopeful, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich wrote on Twitter.
Fiorina stood out as strong, articulate, and prepared.
The former Hewlett-Packard chief executive said she would warn the ayatollah that unless he opens nuclear and military facilities for inspections, “we’re going to make it as hard as possible to move money around the global financial system”. Doing so, he said, includes tearing up the agreement with Iran that Obama negotiated. In answering the question, the former Texas governor slipped and called the 40th president by the wrong name.
“A hundred fifty billion is fixing to going to a country that killed our Marines in Lebanon, that used their weapons to kill our young men”, he said. She is still defending Planned Parenthood and she is still her party’s front-runner.
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“It’s time for Republicans in D.C.to fight”, he said. NPR’s clock gave him two more minutes than any other candidate (10-and-a-half), but the information content of his responses was too low to excite.
