Top US Republicans oppose minimum wage hike

But one wealthy Bush supporter was quoted in the Times as being opposed to the idea of going after Rubio.

Debate host Fox Business Network is promising to focus on substantive issues, a response to those who accused last month’s CNBC debate of focusing too much on politics and “gotcha” questions.

A smaller cast of candidates faces off Tuesday night in the Republicans’ fourth presidential debate, with mild-mannered Ben Carson pledging to push back aggressively if challenged on the veracity of his celebrated personal story. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, has sometimes struggled when challenged to explain his prescriptions for the nation’s problems.

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Trump has seized on the inconsistencies of Carson’s biography, repeating a long list of examples of potential exaggerations and unproven claims during recent television appearances.

“People who know me know that I’m an honest person”, Carson said.

But for the first time this debate season, candidates will not make opening statements, and they’ll have more time to explain their arguments.

Rubio’s campaign tried to get ahead of a few expected challenges in the debate by releasing two more years of charge card statements from his time as a state lawmaker. A spirited debate broke out between Donald Trump, who wants to send millions of undocumented immigrants home, and John Kasich and Jeb Bush, who said that plan is unrealistic and too costly. What I do have a problem with is being lied about.

Those who have followed Trump may have been assuming that Trump will take aim mainly at the other candidate who has been threatening his frontrunner status in the poll numbers.

Clinton has called for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $12. They were joined by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Pennsylvania Sen.

“We have to start treating people the same and finding out what they really think”, he said.

Fresh off a self-deprecating performance on “Saturday Night Live”, the billionaire Trump set out to try to squelch Carson’s momentum and prove his campaign hadn’t plateaued.

“We will respond to all attacks that are not fair”, she said.

Republican United States presidential contenders attacked Donald Trump’s views on Syria and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as simplistic and unrealistic, and rival Jeb Bush said the real estate mogul did not grasp “how the real world works”.