Big, Little Things to Know About Tonight’s GOP Debate

Sparks’ party was one of about 10 debate watch parties that the El Paso County Republican Party encouraged precinct leaders to hold and invite their neighbors and friends.

None of the candidates who appeared Thursday – barring, at times, Bush, Rubio and Kasich – seemed to possess more than a shallow grasp of domestic or foreign policy.

Only authenticated viewers – those with pay-TV subscriptions – could stream the evening debate, using either Fox News mobile apps or heading onto foxnews.com on their desktops. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, and Tim Ryan, D-Youngstown, said Democrats are the party of inclusion while Republicans continue to block access to voting, fight against affordable health care and speak out against marriage equality. War veteran Bob Dole and isolationist Pat Buchanan, plus Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes in 1996. But 2008 and 2012 didn’t, with McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee slugging it out in 2008 and Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum doing so in 2012. First, Senate Democrats have an incentive to filibuster Republican bills so that they never reach the president’s desk.

Rand Paul was in high school when George Pataki was first elected to office.

While Perry tweeted and Fiorina said that they looked forward to the pre-debate debate, Santorum communications manager Matt Beynon said excluding seven presidential candidates based on polling seven months ahead of the actual primary elections was “preposterous”.

Those five are Clinton, Lincoln Chaffee (a former senator from Rhode Island), former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Vermont Sen.

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