“And if the moderators bring up Carson’s comments about a Muslim candidate for president, it will be interesting to see how not only he responds, but how the other candidates respond as well”.
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Whether it’s Christie, Donald Trump, Ben Carson or any of the seven others, Quick is making every effort to not get caught off-guard and be able to keep the candidates honest and on topic. After the debate, that theory will only become more popular.
After a heated exchange in which he lambasted CNBC moderators for asking unfair questions, the Texas Senator tried to make peace by suggesting that he would do something nice for interlocutor Carl Quintanilla.
Rubio’s response was devastating. “But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home”.
When John Harwood asked him, “Is this the comic book version of a presidential campaign?” “Someone convinced you attacking me is going to help you”.
On October 21, CNBC announced that daytime anchors Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla would join Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood as moderators of the third Republican presidential primary debate on October 28.
Cruz shot back that “the questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media”. It didn’t matter that Cruz was actually being asked a substantive question about the debt ceiling; the outburst made its mark.
Noticeably missing from Matthews’ list was Ben Carson.
Cruz later patched things up with moderator John Harwood, who noted the two are “clearly not having that beer you mentioned”.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio leaned heavily on paranoid claims that the media is out to get them.
Instead of turning the candidates against one another, Cruz suggested moderators should “talk about the substantive issues people care about”.
“CNBC does underscore that the only people sometimes more vapid than candidates are journalists talking about candidates”, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweeted, echoing the sentiments of hundreds of journalists and political operatives.
We saw Cruz advancing his plan tonight at the debate, calculating beneath a suck-uppy surface.
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Stylistically, Cruz performed strongly for the rest of the debate too – he didn’t seem too angry, and even cracked a few jokes. He even threw in a call for the gold standard for good measure.
