Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush mocked Trump for believing his plan would work.
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There was a clear victor in Tuesday night’s Fox Business Network debate, according to a Fox News focus group conducted by veteran GOP pollster Frank Luntz.
With income inequality looming as an election issue, thousands of protesters took to the streets across the United States earlier in the day to demand a $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers.
“Business issues can be riveting, because it wasn’t about us, it was about them”, he said.
“As far as the minimum wage is concerned, people need to be educated on the minimum wage”, the retired neurosurgeon said Tuesday. Paul asked, pointing to Rubio’s plans to expand the military. Kasich recommended lowering taxes and looking at his website while going over his allotted time twice.
APPHOTO VASH101: Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson gestures during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Wednesday, November 11, 2015. “It is fair, simple, and against the IRS”, he said. The next Republican Presidential debate is slated for December 15, 2015, and sources in the Republican National Committee are concerned this debate may become lost in the holiday rush, making last night’s debate a lot weightier until the post-holiday debate in January.
Next up in the hot seat was Carson. Carson and Trump also got kudos from those polled.
“I saw the most disgraceful thing I’ve seen in this entire campaign a few weeks ago: Hillary Clinton was asked the enemy she’s most proud of, and she said Republicans”, Christie said in his closing comments. He is also confident of the success of his wall.
Bush stepped in to warn that sending back half a million immigrants per month “is just not possible”. He did little to change that, occasionally jabbing his rivals and appealing to hardliners who support his plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants.
“It is not complicated that on the seminal fight over amnesty in Congress, the Gang of Eight bill, that I stood with the American people and led the fight to defeat it”, Cruz said. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Fiorina – had their moments, but probably not enough of them.
“Ben was talking about, I guess he wrote a book – probably before he thought he was going to run for office, to be honest with you”, Trump said.
Trump and Bush went back and forth about the US being involved in other countries.
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But the most relieved candidate after the two-hour encounter inside the Milwaukee Theater was Bush, the former Florida governor who was outclassed in the three previous debates and has suffered an erosion of support from Republican voters and a drop-off in financial donations. With all of these rebuttals and economic policies, there were distinct winners and losers, according to those who watched. Although he still wasn’t the chattiest candidate on stage, he did make use of the longer response times moderators allowed this time and called out Clinton as out of touch on the economy.
