U.S Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, visited a mosque to show he disagreed with Trump, and Democratic members of Congress said they would invite Muslims to sit with them at next month’s State of the Union address to show their solidarity with those who practice Islam.
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Tuesday night’s debate was the first for Republicans since the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., which heightened fears of terrorism in the United States.
Beginning after 9-11, the NSA secretly collected the daily calling records – but not contents of conversations – for most Americans, including people never suspected of any crime.
The result of the showdown: Some winners and some losers.
It wouldn’t be hard for Trump to concoct a tale of GOP subterfuge created to sabotage his campaign to support a claim that he had no other choice but to pursue an independent run because he couldn’t disappoint his legions.
Bush, on his own initiative and at times prodded by moderators, challenged Trump throughout the two-hour debate.
Later Bush told Trump, “You’re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency”.
CNN political commentator Michael Smerconish said after the debate that Bush “turned in a strong performance” with his ability to repeatedly needle Trump. He did not elaborate on the practial reality of doing so, other than to say he would enlist the best and the brightest from Silicon Valley to out-hack the jihadis.
Nobel Prize victor Malala Yousafzai also condemned Donald Trump’s views on Muslims on Tuesday, commenting that it’s “tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others“. There is no denying the fact that many people are impressed the way Jeb took on Trump. “I said last February that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground, in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War”, he said.
Rubio defended the collection of metadata from US citizens and lashed out at Cruz for supporting restrictions this year. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clashed sharply over national security and immigration in Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, thrusting their evolving feud to the forefront of the GOP race. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has been making gains on frontrunner Donald Trump in national polls as well as in the critical early-voting state of Iowa.
The battle between Jeb and the Donald wasn’t the only one taking center stage. He said his constituents want reform paired with security.
“We need toughness”, Trump said. Paul, who barely made the debate stage, tried to take him on. The governor continued to play to his executive experience and his prosecutions of terrorism cases as a USA attorney.
But the retired neurosurgeon faltered on that front – offering little in the way of assuaging those concerns, which are believed to have contributed to Carson’s fall from his position near the top of the polls in Iowa and nationally.
Instead, the multi-billionaire continues to dismiss his rivals and to speak about policy in vague and unrealistic ways rather than specifics.
During the earlier “undercard” debate, each of the four Republicans participating was also questioned about Trump’s proposal.
“This is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve”, she added. Carson, Christie, Fiorina, Kasich and Paul vs. oblivion.
Unfortunately for Paul, nobody wanted to tangle with him.
And Rand Paul, who has also struggled in recent months, was widely expected to not make the cut for the main debate this week. Cruz criticized Rubio for his work on a 2013 Senate bill that provided a path to citizenship to immigrants in the country illegally.
“For Marco to suggest our record’s the same, is like suggesting the fireman and the arsonist have the same record because they’re both at the scene of the fire”, Cruz quipped.
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Well, almost. No one hit anybody.
