Highlights From the Fourth Republican Presidential Debate

But Tuesday’s debate was more substantive and less personality-driven.

The result was a loosely managed but meaty debate that left the candidates free to hash out their differences on immigration, trade, taxes and foreign policy.

Fox Business, the sponsor of the Republican debate on November 10, has stated that candidates must average a minimum of 2.5 percent in the four latest national polls to participate in the fourth prime time GOP debate.

GOP candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush denied allegations that Bush rebuffed Rubio during a break at Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, assuring the press it was “a cordial exchange”.

“For the 11 million people, c’mon folks”.

Becky Quick to Carly Fiorina: “Anybody who was following the market knows that your stock was a much worse performer, if you looked at your competitors, if you looked at the overall market….” It’s a silly argument. It is not an adult argument. “It makes no sense”, said Kasich, who is polling in the low single-digits.

Although Bush didn’t try to land any attack lines against Rubio in Tuesday night’s debate over missing Senate votes – as he attempted in the last event – he resumed such criticism on Wednesday during the town hall.

“It would tear communities apart”, echoed Bush. “That’s not for me to say”, he said, noting that he did have enough confidence in Carson to have him run one of his companies.

“They’re doing high fives in the Clinton campaign when they hear this”, he said. That’s the problem with this.

“The most important job any of us will ever do is the job of being a president”, Rubio said. “And the way you win the presidency is to have practical plans”.

“I think we ought to look at where income inequality seems to be the worst”, Paul said.

Trump and Bush went back and forth about the USA being involved in other countries.

Trump said Russian Federation should “knock the hell” out of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in Syria and that the USA should remain out of the conflict.

He explained that the elimination of Trump from the Republican race would allow Christie to play up a few of the strengths Trump now overshadows.

Kasich essentially compared Trump’s to the mindset of a child who is adamant to get his way, even if it is entirely naive. “We can embrace legal immigration while believing in the rule of law”, he said.

“He’s absolutely wrong on this”.

Rubio expanded on that, accusing Wall Street of “going around bragging about it. We are so big, we are so important, that if we get in trouble, the government has to bail us out”.

Bush continued: “And the idea that it’s a good idea for Putin to be in Syria, let ISIS take out Assad and then Putin will take out ISIS?” I mean, that’s like a board game, that’s like playing Monopoly or something. “That’s not how the real world works”.

Still, activists chided both Mr. Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the other candidate most prominently calling for legalization of illegal immigrants, for refusing to back President Obama’s own immigration plans, which include a deportation amnesty.

“The mood was certainly upbeat” after Tuesday’s debate, Bush donor Al Hoffman said. He questioned Kasich’s record in OH while Kasich attacked his immigration policy. Ted Cruz, for example, keeps pushing the gold standard – and suggested, at one point, that economic booms and busts only showed up in the USA after the nation abandoned gold.