On The Clock: Who’s Getting The Most Talking Time In Tonight’s Debate

Donald Trump lashed out at rivals Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz overnight at the most acrimonious debate to date between Republican US presidential candidates, shouting insults and casting aside a pledge to be more measured.

“Two days ago, he said he would take his trousers off and moon everybody”, Trump said of Bush. Graham has endorsed Jeb Bush and the former President Bush will campaign for his brother in Charleston on Monday.

Mr Trump dominated the bulk of the conversation in the first half, with 42 per cent of the mentions associated with the hashtag #GOPDebate, according to Twitter data. And while the crowd backed Cruz, the fact of the matter is that Trump’s voters love his aggression.

Marco Rubio said that Scalia will go down as “one of the great justices of this republic” before flubbing confirmation history.

A bitter fight is expected this year over President Barack Obama’s future nominee to the court to replace Scalia, with Republicans likely to block efforts by the White House to install a new justice before the November presidential election.

Trump was quickly goaded when Bush criticised Trump’s past statements that Russian Federation has a role to play in Syria. 11 attacks, he blamed the September 11 attacks on instead former President Bill Clinton. Trump then repeated an accusation that the Bush family used eminent domain to build a baseball stadium, which also came up in another recent debate. The real estate mogul also accused Bush of lying about Trump’s business record and said Bush’s brother – former President George W. Bush – lied to the public about the Iraq war. He continued: “George Bush made a mistake”. When Dickerson asked Trump if he still holds this view, an inflamed Trump called the Iraq War “a big fat mistake” that cost the United States trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. But that one was a beauty. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none, and they knew there were none”. “And there were none”.

Trump is better at being rude than Bush.

South Carolina’s first-in-the-South contest could well end some Republican campaigns.

Jeb Bush rejected Trump’s remarks and said he was “sick and tired” of him attacking his family. “While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe”, Bush said. “And I’m proud of what he did”, Bush fumed. “My mom is the strongest woman I know”.

Cruz was born in Canada, and while he insists he is constitutionally eligible to run for president, Trump has repeatedly expressed doubts about that, and warned that Democrats would seek to bar him from the ballot should Cruz win the nomination. Trust Trump, he knows the reply for every attack thrown at him, Trump argued that the people who were booing him were Bush’s “special interests and lobbyists”. “This guy lied – let me just tell you, this guy lied about Ben Carson when he took votes away from Ben Carson in Iowa, and he just continues”. “I never went bankrupt”. Even later, he called out Trump for making offensive comments.

Cruz was critical of Rubio’s failed attempts to reform immigration while as a member of the Gang of Eight.

Needless to say, this didn’t sit well with Trump, who erupted and called Cruz “the single biggest liar” in the campaign.

The two leading candidates – Ted Cruz and Donald Trump – clashed, each hoping to deal the other a fatal blow as they fight to be the outsider-frontrunner of choice.

Ohio Governor John Kasich, who came in second in the New Hampshire primary, defended his decision to expand Medicaid in his state through the Affordable Care Act by invoking Ronald Reagan.

“These attacks, some of them are personal”.

“I think we’re fixing to lose the election to Hillary Clinton if we don’t stop this”, he said.

“Marco went on Univision in Spanish and said he would not rescind president Obama’s illegal exclusive amnesty”, Cruz added.

Trump shot back, “Give me a break”. “And he makes things up”.

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