“You know, I don’t care if a guy like Jeb Bush never endorses me”, Trump said.
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Donald Trump’s poll standing has proven durable, despite his recent nonsense about barring all Muslims from US entry.
Before the debate, Rubio’s camp had already taken aim at Cruz, saying that he supports “legalizing people that are illegally in the country”. “Donald, you know, is great at the one-liners, he’s a chaos candidate and he’d be a chaos president”, Bush retorted.
Nothing Trump says or does during a debate is going to topple him, nor is anything his opponents say or do. It lasted more than two hours where presidential aspirants focused exclusively on foreign policy and national security.
This election cycle’s GOP primary has felt like “The Trump Show” – the real-estate mogul has led most of the polls for months and has earned a huge amount of media coverage for both his controversial remarks and his devoted following.
The CNN debate saw freshman senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio sharply criticizing each other’s truthfulness, and positions on issues ranging from immigration to the collection of meta-data.
“For the first time in five debates, Senator Rubio publicly admitted not only did he support Obama and Schumer’s amnesty but he still supports amnesty and citizenship today”, Cruz said Thursday – highlighting a Rubio stance that is anathema to the GOP’s conservative base.
According to the survey, 42% of GOP viewers saw Bush in a less favorable light after the debate, while 37% said their view of him hadn’t changed.
In his response Senator Rubio – who unlike Senator Cruz sits on Intelligence Committee – suggested that Senator Cruz’s comments might have revealed too much.
Senate Intelligence Committee leaders said Wednesday they aren’t investigating whether Texas Sen. “And that tool we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal”.
During the debate, Cruz said he voted against the defense spending bill because he wanted it to remove the federal government’s authority to detain US citizens without due process.
“It represents more than a public-relations victory for Cruz”, it said. On Tuesday, Rubio attacked Cruz on national security, particularly his decision to not support legislation that would provide more military funding. Rubio came in third with 15 percent.
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“Governor Bush made explicitly clear on Tuesday his view that Donald Trump would be a chaos president who would be wrong for the country”. Those four did not qualify for the main event.
