Paul goes on the offensive in GOP debate

A long-simmering feud between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio on immigration finally exploded before an audience of millions Tuesday in what ultimately may prove to be a pivotal moment in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), two first-term senators who often cite their families’ emigration from Cuba in pursuit of the American dream, have engaged in an aggressive battle to define each other’s positions on immigration and border security.

To compare the senators, consider Paul, Rubio, and Cruz’s positions on the USA Freedom and USA Patriot Acts. “I am totally committed to the Republican Party”, Trump said.

“If we topple Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen USA national security interests”, said Cruz, referring to the militant group that claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris and appears to have inspired the California shooting.

“This about the greatest country in the world – and acting like it”, Rubio says, in a line evoking Trump’s trademark slogan “Make America great again”.

Rubio actually recognizes, Cruz concluded, that “the old program covered 20 to 30 percent of phone numbers to search for terrorists [and] the new program covered almost 100 percent”.

Cruz responded by asserting that his rival is purposely misleading voters, citing a popular conservative talk show host’s analysis as anecdotal evidence. “It was a very decisive, historic vote, and Cruz was a valuable and articulate opponent, and Marco was an articulate proponent”, Sessions said.

Becca Glover Watkins, Burr’s communications director, then tweeted: “Cruz shouldn’t have said that”.

“For God’s sakes, Mr. Trump, you’re asking to be the commander in chief”, the senator said. A poll from The Washington Post and ABC News conducted entirely after Trump proposed the Muslim ban found support for Trump at 38% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents – up six percentage points from a Post/ABC poll in mid-November.

Conservative Solutions PAC spokesman Jeff Sadosky did not reveal specifics of the major ad campaign, but said it is part of a major ad buy that started in December, and will run throughout the early state process. We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans’ records. “We would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if, in fact, they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the Oval Office is right now”. He called for a no-fly zone over Syria and vowed to shoot down a Russian plane if it were to violate that space.

The critiques were previewed in an earlier so-called “undercard” debate that preceded the main event. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), had proposed.