Local observers looking forward to GOP presidential debate

It was also the highest-rated telecast in Fox News Channel’s history.

The first televised debates on Thursday mark the launch of the 2016 presidential campaign season – and on the Republican side, it’s starting out with a field of unusual diversity, the most candidates the party has seen in 100 years.

The forum, which at times felt more theatrical than political, is the latest example how one of the nation’s most divisive topics has been ignored in the GOP primary thus far.

“It will tell everybody based on the responses they get to this debate and everything who needs to stay in and who needs to go away”, Bowman said.

Did the debate change your mind about the candidates? First, Senate Democrats have an incentive to filibuster Republican bills so that they never reach the president’s desk.

During the undercard debate, one moderator structured a question about labor market weakness in America around the premise that too many people are choosing to idle about on the dole rather than work for a living.

Both will be LIVE on Fox News.

Recent polls show the majority of Republican voters support measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions, increase renewable energy and improve energy efficiency.

With a full spectrum of GOP contenders with various priorities, Young Republicans are reminding candidates to pay attention to issues important to them.

“The whole issue, the main issue, they do agree on that”, she says. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.

People came to the Charlottesville Democratic Headquarters to watch the Republican debate.

“While this isn’t a very big issue among Republicans, it is among Democrats”, he said.