Low-polling GOP presidential candidates talk taxes, jobs in undercard debate

He’s made the case before in earlier debates, but it sounded downright strange-and decidedly embarrassing-now that Christie is among the undercard underclass.

“I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist”, he said. “All you have to do is listen to the last Democratic debate”.

Chris Christie fought to maintain the main target squarely on Hillary Clinton at the 1st of two GOP debates Tues. evening, warning the Democratic front-runner is “coming for your wallet” – whilst the candidates on stage sparred over their very own fiscal records. It’s the first time the network hosts a presidential debate – much less two of them – and it’s doing so with the Wall Street Journal. He told the story of a woman in New Hampshire who told him how she’s always anxious.

Demoted to the lesser-watched event and forced to compete against low-polling long shots – former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former U.S. Sen.

Notable by his absence was SC Sen.

“Remember why we’re in the position we’re in with China”, Christie said in response to a question about the Asian giant’s cyberwarfare.

Gov. Chris Christie didn’t let a little thing like being relegated to the so-called undercard debate stand in his way on Tuesday night.

“We need to make the tax code fairer, flatter and simpler – the American people feel the tax code is rigged for the rich”, said Christie.

Christie also addressed the ongoing debate about policing in the United States by accusing the Obama administration of “not standing behind police across the country, allowing lawlessness to reign in this country”.

“Ninety-one percent of our state budget was three things – educate, medicate and incarcerate – and we ended up cutting 11 percent out of the budget so we didn’t have to go in and raise a bunch of taxes”, Huckabee said.

“When Secretary Clinton says there’s no crisis at the VA, that sends a hard message to veterans that she doesn’t get it and she doesn’t respect their service”, he said.

Santorum said he visits a manufacturing company once a week and finds open jobs with no one to fill them.

The Washington Post sums up Jindal’s tactics: “Jindal, who rose in politics as a mild-mannered wonk, seems to believe his path to the nomination is to run as a conservative hard-liner, and a bit of a jerk”, noting another of his quotes: “I want to fire everybody in DC”. “If the Chinese commit cyber warfare against us, they are going to see cyber warfare like they have never seen it before”, Christie said, vowing to hack into secret government accounts so records of how the Chinese government spends its money can be disclosed to the Chinese public.

He says, “It’s not enough just to beat Hillary Clinton, we have to change the direction of our country”.

Carson defended himself over the past week and said that the media is unfairly scrutinizing his record more so than his fellow 2016 presidential candidates, or even President Barack Obama.

Christie did make a brief appearance in the spin room following the October 28 Republican debate in Colorado.

Christie didn’t take the bait for the most part, instead using his answers to try to turn an eye toward the general election with ready attacks against Hillary Clinton.