Paris attacks cause Christie to reflect on 9/11
New Jersey Gov. Christ Christie says the Paris terrorist attacks made him reflect on the September 11 attacks in NY City and he’s afraid that Americans have forgotten the fear and risk they felt afterward.
Carson is the last of seven presidential candidates to speak Friday at a two-day presidential summit in Orlando, Florida. The presidential hopeful says that America should have one goal when dealing with this terror organization and that is to “eliminate them completely”.
Republican presidential candidate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, addresses the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, November 14, 2015. “This is going to be a real wall, it’s going to be a Trump wall”.
“Once we demonstrate our resolve to defeat not only ISIS, but the entire global jihadist movement, I think that we will find there will be adequate people who will join”, Carson said. Ted Cruz for now dueling over who was toughest on immigration.
Another sign of the unsettled nature of the race is how home-state favorites Bush and Rubio are no longer a given to win Florida’s March 15 primary, vividly captured by Cruz’s church rally Friday.
Cruz also unveiled his Florida campaign’s leadership Friday, including state Chairman Neil Combee, a lawmaker from Polk County, and stopped at an Orlando church to unveil his “Stop Illegal Immigration” policy.
Reporters hoping to ask him about those comments were disappointed though when after waiting for about 10 minutes for him to appear for a press availability, a spokesman for the Republican Party of Florida said that he would not be appearing before reporters.
The issue of immigration arose in the fourth Republican presidential debate earlier this week, leading Cruz to accuse Rubio of being soft on unauthorized immigrants, and Rubio to respond that, as far as he knew, they had similar positions. We win because we believe in conservative principles and we apply them consistently….
“It’s extraordinarily important that the Republican Party reclaim the reputation we’ve had most of our life that we’re the go-to guys on national defense”, Cheney said at the Statesman’s Dinner, a fundraiser for the Republican Party of Florida.
“We have seen evil visited upon innocent people once again”, he said. “To be successful you have to appeal to people’s higher instincts, not lower instincts”.
Donald Trump has said he would send the refugees back if he becomes president.