“He didn’t want to come, so it’s his loss”, said Trent Spiner, Union leader executive editor. “I’m going to stand up for conservatism”.
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Monday’s participants included seven current or former governors, four senators, a businesswoman, a retired neurosurgeon and one former senator. Only Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee elected to attend.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said the Republican party shouldn’t overlook support in early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire in favor of national numbers.
Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul appeared remotely from Washington, D.C., where they were stuck because of an evening vote on legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood.
“If I am president, we are going to push back”. “Every person who has participated in this debate is far better than any of the Democrats running”.
Trump leads among Tea Party supporters with 33 percent and evangelical Christians with 22 percent, two important subgroups of conservative GOP voters.
As Trumps surge in the polls continues to confound many, it is clear that his in-your-face demeanor is winning over Republican voters.
Others offered a softer tone.
“If this administration is responsible for sending billions of dollars to Iran, and those billions go to jihadists who use that money to murder Americans, Israelis and Europeans, then this administration is responsible”, Cruz said. More than a dozen respected polling outfits have conducted national surveys on the GOP primary this year, so Fox execs should have plenty to pick and choose from depending on which polls they choose to “recognize” and just how literal they want to be in regards to “most recent”. He also called for reducing legal immigration, particularly the number of people allowed to enter the country to rejoin family.
Walker, calling himself “pro-worker and pro-taxpayer”, said President Obama’s Clean Power plan to cut carbon emissions by 25 percent, unveiled Monday, “would be like taking a buzz saw to our nation’s economy”.
He called it a moral obligation and warned that climate change will threaten future generations if left unchecked.
Kasich said he balanced budgets both on the state and federal levels.
With only 10 slots available for the highest-polling candidates at the Fox debate in Cleveland, Monday gave an opportunity to candidates who be on that stage.
“I’m sorry, I can’t”, Graham said, before starting over. In that regard, former technology chief executive Carly Fiorina – the only woman in the GOP race – displayed solid command.
But the billionaire mogul was a no-show at an event seen as a preview of this week’s Republican debate.
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”. Governor Scott Walker was in New Hampshire Monday, August 3rd for a forum, as what will be a big week for the GOP began. “We’re building a movement, our strategy is working – talking directly to voters”.
The latest average includes three polls that have been released in the past two days – one from NBC and The Wall Street Journal, one from Fox News, and one from Monmouth University. Even former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has been the most strident critic of Trump, spoke at length about immigration without mentioning Trump’s role in elevating the issue in the campaign.
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South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham took aim at Clinton at Monday’s forum, suggesting she is being dishonest about her lack of public stance on the proposed Keystone oil pipeline and her controversial use of personal email during her time as Secretary of State under Obama.
