He also said not enough was done to ensure candidates received relatively equal time on the air; Bush campaign officials reportedly complained to CNBC while the debate was going on that their candidate was not getting enough time. “The problem is we never get it done”.
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Donald Trump may have the most Twitter followers and be the most quotable man among Republican presidential contenders, but the real estate mogul didn’t register the most viral moments during Wednesday night’s GOP debate on CNBC.
“It’s hard to go after a guy who’s so nice all the time“, Bowers said.
Still, an approach tailored to winning New Hampshire’s moderate Republicans could backfire in other states’ primaries, said University of New Hampshire political scientist Dante Scala. “I’m sick and exhausted of listening to this nonsense and I’m going to have to call it like it is in this race”, Kasich said in debuting his new tone during a pre-debate sendoff Tuesday in his longtime home of Westerville. Ted Cruz, 8 percent; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, 7 percent; former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, 6 percent; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, 2 percent; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 2 percent; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 1 percent; Kentucky Sen. It is absolutely absurd to say that I had any kind of a relationship with them.
Over the past week, Trump has gone after Carson, criticizing his low-key manner and wondering aloud about his Seventh-day Adventist religion, implying that it’s out of the mainstream. Here’s what they said. “Let me win Iowa”, he added. Believe me, that is why Ohio is doing well….
A joke, but perhaps one with more than a grain of truth. He’s starting to see more support, but with that also comes more scrutiny.
“Last night, all of the polls – every single one of ’em – said I won”, Trump bragged, referring to online questionnaires taken during and after the debate.
The Donald then held forth.
According to CBS, seven out of 10 GOP voters say that it’s too early to tell if they’ve made up their mind about their candidate.
Trump, who was the Republican frontrunner for several months dating back to the summer, recently saw his lead dissipate and fall into a statistical tie with Ben Carson. And it was a lot clumsier than Jeb’s attack on Rubio. While Carson may have moved to the top of the pack, Trump’s supporters are more firm in their candidate choice than Carson’s. But Trump’s plummet and Fiorina’s rise in the previous iteration would seem to have been flukes, as they weren’t sustained in the RealClearPolitics average for more than a few days.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows the two front-runners in a dead heat.
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STEVE CRAIG: It won’t be good for either one of them, I don’t think – because we’re all in this together.
