As the candidates take turns onstage, their rivals will sit side-by-side in the audience.
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For one night, the national polls didn’t matter.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) The Republican Party’s jam-packed presidential class faced off Monday night in New Hampshire, where more than a dozen White House hopefuls aim to warm up for the first full-fledged debate of the primary season. A Quinnipiac poll out this week shows Trump with 20 percent support.
Never pushed outside their comfort zones, they directed their attack lines at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
In all, 14 Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to participate.
Rick Perry portrayed himself as a job creator.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum went further, calling for a 25 percent reduction of low-skilled immigrants coming into the country legally.
Scott Walker sold himself as a “fresh face with a proven track record”.
Jeb Bush 60 votes 7.5%.
Rand Paul, US senator from Kentucky: 5%.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, whose parents moved to the US from India, said he was determined to ensure people no longer talked about “hyphenated Americans”. Lindsey Graham is expected to attend in person. “I’m not looking to attack them”, he said on the ABC television program “This Week”.
“I think I’m a nice person, I really do”, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
For the first time the only woman candidate in the GOP lineup, Carly Fiorina, will be on the national stage getting equal treatment.
The New Hampshire meeting comes amid new movement on politically charged issues. “You have to do town halls”. “New Hampshire’s about competency and character”.
“This forum is important because it lets voters decide who the candidates should be”. It’s the earlier debate where candidates will be able to present themselves without worrying about being overshadowed.
Governor Scott Walker was in New Hampshire Monday, August 3rd for a forum, as what will be a big week for the GOP began.
Some Republicans offered a softer tone Monday night.
The Monmouth University poll is not an anomaly.
Asked how he would lead the US in the worldwide arena, Senator Lindsay Graham said his foreign policy would be “a clenched fist or an open hand – you choose”.
“It treats all candidates equally”, said Steve Duprey, New Hampshire’s representative to the Republican National Committee. Ted Cruz of Texas (6 percent), and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (5.7 percent).
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Three of the four senators running for president appeared live via satellite from Washington, where they were stuck voting on whether the Senate should take up a bill that would block funding for Planned Parenthood. They’d rather see back-to-back debates with the field randomly split in half, or putting all 17 candidates on the same stage, the poll found. “And for the second-tier candidates, it’s all upside”.
