Unrepentant Trump defends call to ban Muslims from US

The 2016 Republican presidential candidates gathered in Las Vegas Tuesday night with two goals: to scare the hell out of the American people, and to promote themselves as the guy or gal who’ll keep us safe.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said of Trump’s proposal, “It isn’t going to happen”.

According to senator Ted Cruz’s declarations, standing by Trump was a way to not upset his supporters, as the businessman is now a front-runner for the Republican party. Their competing strategies played out in early voting states on Thursday as the freshman senators pushed to separate themselves from the crowded GOP field six weeks before the first primary votes are cast. But Sen. Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina steered clear of criticizing the decision of local authorities. Ted Cruz, who has been rising in polls, particularly in Iowa, which holds its leadoff caucuses on February 1. “It’s not an attack”. “He strongly supported legalizing people that were in this country illegally”. “We recognized that the talking points that Senator Rubio and others were using to describe the monumental (Gang of Eight) bill were not accurate”.

For the most part, everyone showed a depth of knowledge on national security matters that the country desperately needs after seven years of President Obama’s disasters.

“He clearly was a support of legalization”, Rubio told Fox host Megyn Kelly.

RUBIO: Let me be very careful when answering this because I don’t think national television in front of 15 million people is the place to discuss classified information.

Cruz frequently maintains that he will not throw mud at his rivals, but he has been locked in a pitched battle with Sen.

Rubio and other scoff at that explanation, and some pundits argued after the debate that Cruz’s conservative luster on the issue of immigration had been dimmed by the Rubio exchange.

The word fear was only used once by the candidates in the entire debate, but Michael Crowley, senior foreign affairs correspondent for Politico, says fear “absolutely” seemed to hover over the whole thing.

Then they could apply for a green card, a step that assumes the possibility of eventual citizenship but may or may not mean that.

If Cruz’s position was unclear in 2013, he’s clarified it since, saying during Tuesday night’s debate that he hasn’t and “doesn’t intend” to support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants.

“They talked about some important issues, like Assad and getting rid of dictators, thought it was pretty interesting”, said WMU student Rachel Lubin. Indeed, I led the fight against his legalization and amnesty. Cruz in 2013 was Sen.

His bill, an amendment to Senate immigration legislation, proposed stripping out the option of citizenship.