The debate was already highly anticipated.
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Bush and other Republican candidates are seizing on Trump’s penchant for profanity in the hopes that that won’t sit well with South Carolina’s religious voters.
Republican presidential contender John Kasich spent time and money winning over New Hampshire voters.
It’s all out war in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. “I mean, he’s done crazier things, so we’ll see”.
“The single biggest problem we have against Trump is math, it’s not anything else”, said Mackowiak.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz speak during a commercial break in the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, SC, Jan. 14.
“It would be interesting to see if a court would actually take it”, she said. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president”.
Rubio entered the debate under enormous pressure following his disappointing fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary.
With his children eating at an adjacent table, he soon turned back to presidential politics: “I don’t know about how it will work out”, he said. “The memorized 25-second speech”. He stumbled badly in a debate days before that vote. Lindsey Graham, into a spot ahead of Kasich and Rubio, at least. The state has been good to his family and his brother, President George W. Bush, in 2000 went on to win the nomination after losing to John McCain in New Hampshire as the victory allowed him to recapture momentum.
Trump has lashed out as his rivals that stand in his way in his quest for the White House. The campaign pulled an attack ad against Cruz, replacing it with a positive spot.
This could prove to be a short-lived strategy.
“If @TedCruz doesn’t clean up his act, stop cheating, & doing negative ads, I have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen”, Trump tweeted Friday afternoon.
Cruz is holding nothing back.
And the candidates themselves are also increasingly hitting Trump with an eye toward the SC, where Trump is leading his closest competitors by double-digits in recent polls.
Cruz edged past Trump in the Iowa caucuses.
In town hall meetings packed to the brim with supporters or curious voters, Kasich is making the case for a brand of conservatism that leaves no one behind. One person accuses Rubio of having “cut a deal on amnesty”.
One man dressed up as the “Trump Wall” at Trump’s campaign rally in Tampa, Florida on Friday.
All of this suggests that a feistier and more aggressive Cruz may take the debate stage Saturday. He later picked up the endorsement of South Carolina’s former first lady Iris Campbell, a longtime Bush family ally.
Rubio appeared more fluid in Saturday’s contest, including during a robust defense of his proposed 25 percent corporate tax rate – which is not as much of a tax cut as many of his rivals are pitching.
Bush, the son and brother of a president, was the outlier here. The 25th Amendment establishes the two-term limit.
The governor received more interest Tuesday in New Hampshire than any other GOP candidate, including Trump. He was virtually tied with Marco Rubio and trailed behind Trump, Cruz and Kasich.
In a lull from the Trump theatrics, Cruz and Rubio got into their own fistfight.
“He’s the last Republican that was president. All of that, I think, is important for people to be reminded of”.
He has downplayed his chances in SC, and he declined to say how he’d fare in the state’s primary on February 20: “I’m not like Muhammad Ali – I can’t predict what round someone’s going to down”. As of December, roughly 650,000 Ohioans had enrolled under the expansion, and according to the state, Ohio’s total Medicaid spending was almost $2 billion below estimates for the fiscal year that ended in June – despite more newly eligible enrollees than projected. And the candidates on the debate stage have their share of vulnerabilities.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton spoke to a packed gymnatorium in Columbia at Allen University Wednesday night. When Bush released 33 years of tax returns last summer, they showed that Bush made a little more than half a million dollars when he sold $1.1 million worth of company stock in 2013.
