Indeed, among the Republican Party’s two Hispanic presidential hopefuls, few issues offer a clearer contrast in tone, if not policy.
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New Hampshire will hold the first primary of the election on February 9th.
“I think he might be a little weak there”, said Muscatine resident Jim Simmons, 49, who’s still deciding between Rubio and Cruz. “I have a lot of respect for him”.
Jim Risch, a Idaho senator on the Foreign Relations committee who has endorsed Rubio, said he believed those type of numbers were classified.
The charge against Wolf Blitzer and company is that they tried to get the Republican presidential candidates to argue with each other.
I found it amusing that while Jeb Bush was lighting into Trump, the CNN cameras went to split screen, showing Trump making faces and rolling his eyes.
Trump who projects a tough-talking persona similar to that of Putin has frequently expressed admiration for the Russian leader, who is “a hockey-playing judo expert who can be found riding horses shirtless”, according to the Times. “Therefore, I asked them to look at it and see if there was any validity to it”, Burr said.
Trump explained Jeb has to do something based on what the polls show.
Time will tell if ratings for that event will be, as Trump would say, “yuuge”.
US Republican front-runner Donald Trump defended his provocative call for banning Muslims from the United States in Tuesday night’s presidential debate as the candidates pushed their own plans for fighting Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.
“I’m glad Donald is running”.
Trump in turn dismissed Jeb as a fading candidate who was resorting to calling him “unhinged” because “he has failed in this campaign”.
Ted Cruz, right, speaks during an exchange with Marco Rubio, left, as Ben Carson, second from left, and Donald Trump look on.
Cruz, the senator from Texas, continued latching Rubio’s support for the bill to President Barack Obama and influential Democratic Sen. He again repeated his threat to “carpet bomb” extremists in Iraq and Syria.
Rubio said the legislation stripped the National Security Agency of valuable tools to track terrorists. “We will utterly destroy ISIS”. We saw some shaping of some arguments that I think we are going to see over the next six weeks or so in the run-up to Iowa.
Instead, the two senators debated at length their differences over government surveillance programs.
“We should have used the money that we spent on toppling dictators for domestic infrastructure”, said Mr. Trump.
Cruz had Kid Rubio on the ropes a couple of times but couldn’t knock him out. “Because what he basically said was we are going to keep doing what we’re doing now, and what we are doing now is not working”.
Cruz and Rubio, both Cuban Americans in their 40s, have shot up in recent national polls.
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In the latest CNN/ORC national Republican poll, released at the start of the month, Bush stood at 3% support and Trump had 36% support. Rubio came in third with 15 percent.
