Literally a few hours after stating he was investigating Ted Cruz over remarks the Texas Tea Party Senator had made during Tuesday night’s GOP debate, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr flip flopped and announced he would not be investigating Cruz. The conversation centered on terrorism in the wake of the attacks in Paris and the San Bernardino shooting-but the candidates took every opportunity to sneak in digs at their rivals on a wide range of subjects.
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“Again, during tonight’s debate, we heard that the Republican solution to solving America’s immigration crisis is to build taller walls and sending more troops to the Mexican border”.
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“Donald is great at the one-liners”, Bush added, “but he’s a chaos candidate and he’d be a chaos president”.
Ted Cruz, right, speaks during an exchange with Marco Rubio, left, as Ben Carson, second from left, and Donald Trump look on. In Las Vegas, I think he played it well.
During the debate, Bush went after Trump by calling him a “chaos candidate,” attacking his plan for fighting ISIS, and telling him that he couldn’t “insult his way to the presidency”.
Trump and Bush provided some of the biggest fireworks during last night’s Republican debate in Las Vegas, with Bush trying to hit Trump for some of his more bombastic statements, while the billionaire swatted back citing Bush’s falling poll numbers.
Trump seized on Bush’s dismal standing in recent polls and largely shrugged off the criticism. I know the president of Egypt, who went to a Sunni mosque to denounce radical Islam.
One notable moment was when the two senators discussed a recently suspended National Security Agency program to collect bulk phone records of American citizens.
Trump was short on specifics about confronting jihadists.
During the fifth GOP debate Tuesday night, Rubio fended off more attacks than ever, including jabs from Sen. “Let me just be very clear: There is nothing we are allowed to do under (the new law) that we could not do before”.
“I don’t know about an alliance”, Lewandowski said. He said the US should support dictators in the Middle East, including Syria’s Bashar Assad, who has the blood of thousands on his hands.
Christie dueled with Senator Rand Paul over how to handle Russian President Vladimir Putin’s muscle-flexing on the world stage. “The answer is to rope in the private sector”, said Carly Fiorina, a former head of Hewlett Packard and the only woman in the race.
The challenge Clinton will face, if she’s the Democratic nominee, is whether smaller shifts on foreign policy are enough for voters.
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Four lower-polling candidates took the stage earlier in an undercard debate, with hawkish Senator Lindsey Graham extending an olive branch to peace-loving Muslims, telling them “you are not the enemy”.
