Graham pushes for place in next GOP debate

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the presumptive frontrunner among the 2016 Democratic presidential hopefuls, and she’s also in the lead when it comes to which Democratic candidate is searched for the most on Google.

It was a crazed scene.

He and six others who were polling at below 2% debated in front of a almost empty arena in Cleveland, four hours before the 10 leading candidates battled before a packed house in prime time.

KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images ‘It is so nakedly partisan to try to limit the electorate, to pick and choose who among our fellow citizens should be encouraged or discouraged from voting, ‘ she said in the interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Graham tried, unsuccessfully, to convince the Republican Party not to rely on national polls to dictate the debate format. His most egregious moments may have been his defense of a single-payer system and his insistence that he gave money to liberal Democrats who did what he told them to do.

He argued Hillary Clinton wouldn’t be able to lecture him about living paycheck to paycheck.

Trump echoed Walker’s statement, “It’s true”.

Former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, former Senator Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former governor of New York George Pataki, Sen. Mr. Sharpton had promised to grill Ms. Clinton but the interview was largely cordial, with the pair discussing voting rights before Mr. Sharpton asked for Ms. Clinton’s plan to address the country’s criminal justice system and the feeling among African Americans that they are disproportionately targeted by it. “But in reality, they are all cut from the same cloth, aligning themselves with views and policies that are out of date and out of touch, showing us first hand why the Republican brand is in such bad shape”.

The first Republican primary debate is in the books and it offered more of the same. “I think in the debate on immigration, we went backward”. Graham said, using the global acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), mocking President Obama’s early remarks describing the group.

“I happen to believe that people are not stupid”, Carson said.