Republicans see Trump as positive debate influence — Reuters poll

That doesn’t mean, of course, that Trump, who will command centre stage at the first Republican presidential debate on Thursday, is going to wind up the party’s nominee a year from now.

For his part, Trump found ways to mock his rivals.

His unapologetic, off-script style offends some but has set Trump apart from a packed field of candidates who have furiously tried to garner the same level of attention. Fox News anchors Bret Baier of “Special Report” and Megyn Kelly of “The Kelly File” and Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday” will moderate the debate.

Voters there will have a big say in whether the candidates can push on with their campaigns to be nominated. The former Florida governor hasn’t participated in a debate in more than a decade. “We’re not going to win by doing what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton do every day – dividing the country”. (Fox News did ask regular people to submit video questions via Facebook, some of which will air.). He said Bush needs to establish himself as a serious contender. He said Thursday that he had been told that by border patrol agents, and he took credit for immigration being an issue in the2016 campaign. Those are: racial issues, Mexico, the economy, LGBT issues and immigration.

Jindal, the Louisiana governor, lightly criticized John Kasich, the Ohio governor who took the 10th and final podium in the main debate, for accepting federal Medicaid dollars, but only after being questioned repeatedly on the subject by the moderator, Fox News Channel’s Bill Hemmer. But asked about recent controversial Planned Parenthood videos, Mr. Pataki noted he is pro-choice and thought Roe v. Wade was the settled law of the land.

Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democratic candidates will hold their first debate on 13 October in Nevada, the party has announced.

Craig Robinson, the former chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, sees echoes of the current president in Trump’s run, saying Trump is another product of the media environment.

Rand Paul tells WBKO-TV in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that it’s “suspicious that President Obama’s administration is bringing this forward in the middle of a presidential debate”.

She also highlighted her call to automatically register people to vote when they turn 18 and to give ex-cons voting rights once they’re out of prison.

It was an explosive start to the first GOP debate in a campaign season already upended by Trump, the unfiltered and brash real estate magnate. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the youngest candidate in the field at age 44, is trying to carve out a niche as a foreign policy wonk, but has struggled to break through this summer – particularly since Trump’s surge.

Rounding out the field was Sen. For the first debate, arguably, this is a better approach: As the field gets smaller, you’ll get a chance to get more detail.

“I had the good sense to leave Atlantic City, which by the way, Caesars just went bankrupt”, Trump said, then gestured to Christie.

The seven other candidates will appear at a shorter debate early Thursday evening. From left, the candidates are Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina and George Pataki.

Maybe the most fascinating polling results from our recent NBC/WSJ survey is tracking the Republicans who say they COULDN’T SUPPORT Trump – and seeing that percentage decrease.

“I understand leadership, which sometimes requires a tough call in a tough time“, said Fiorina, who was forced out of Hewlett-Packard following a nasty battle with her board that became painfully public at times.

While the candidates pitched their visions for the Republican Party’s future, they also made the case that they would present the strongest general election challenge to Clinton. “And she doesn’t represent the change that we need”, Graham said.