This also ranks third, behind the Fox News Channel debate from Cleveland in August (6.64 million demo viewers) and the first CNN debate from Simi Valley, Calif., in September (5.98 million). This time around, Christie was more toned down, merely arguing that the USA should leak embarrassing information concerning the corruption of top Chinese officials. He said he wasn’t seeking to discriminate against Muslims.
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“Maybe a lot of people haven’t heard that terminology before”, Rubio said, instead, without a hint of a smirk. “We are talking about security”.
The tycoon previously signed a pledge stating as much, but recently dangled the possibility of an outside run after rumors surfaced that party leaders were plotting to keep him off the ticket. If he should lose the nomination, some fear he would make such a move, possibly preventing the nominee from defeating the Democratic challenger.
TRUMP: “They shouldn’t be using the word mastermind”. Lindsey Graham is showing that he’s still fighting on during CNN’s undercard Republican debate Tuesday.
To get the larger numbers, Cruz appears to be combining deportations with arrests made by the Border Patrol in the previous administrations, the institute says.
“What I told Sheldon through his people is that I’d love their support”.
The senators – both Cuban-Americans in their 40s – also clashed over whether the US should seek to remove dictators in the Middle East, including Syrian President Bashar Assad. Rubio has tried to brand Cruz as an isolationist and has criticized his support for ending the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, saying it weakens the government’s ability to identify potential terrorists.
CRUZ: “We didn’t monitor the Facebook page of the San Bernardino terrorist because DHS thought it would be inappropriate”. That tool we lost: the metadata tool. Or monitor it fully, or get through the encryptions, or shut down the “dark Web”, the subterannean levels of websites and communication most of us aren’t even aware of.
Paul was quick to bring up Rubio’s now-abandoned gang of eight Senate plan that would have eventually led to undocumented immigrants gaining legal status, saying, “Marco has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy”. “The new program covers almost 100 percent. That’s reality. And we have to stop worrying about offending some people, and start defending all Americans”. The extremist group claimed responsibility for the November 13 attacks in Paris, and one of the shooters in California pledged allegiance to the group on Facebook shortly before she and her husband shot and killed 14 people at a holiday party. You use air power directed – and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power.
President Barack Obama has largely relied on airstrikes to target the militants in Iraq and Syria.
Christie’s proposal to impose a “no-fly” zone in Syria would set the United States on a collision course with Russian Federation and possible war, Paul said. “He thinks he can say ‘Oh I’m great and strong on national defense, ‘ but he’s the weakest of all the candidates on immigration”. And that’s what they need to understand. Huckabee was the only candidate who had previously debated on the main stage. How any candidate who wants to be commander in chief wrestles with that question is relevant.
But with less than two months to the opening nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, last night’s debate did reveal (or reinforce) a few themes to watch for as the GOP race intensifies.
Tonight was the fifth prime time GOP Primary Debate on CNN, featuring Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, and Rand Paul.
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In a pinnacle moment of Bush being called out on calling Trump “unhinged”, he said Trump would be a “chaos president” and would only push the Arab world away from the U.S.
