Rand, Christie Trade Vicious Barbs Over Civil Liberties

“So, if it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t even be talking about illegal immigration, Chris”, he said to moderator Chris Wallace, who challenged Trump to back up his allegations that the Mexican government is sending its criminals over the border into the United States.

“When you actually have to be responsible for doing this”, Christie continued, “you can do it, and we did it, for seven years in my office, respecting civil liberties and protecting the homeland”. Paul, who has been vocal about ending the government’s sweeping collection of Americans’ communications records, said that Christie doesn’t understand the Fourth Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Christie claimed that while he was convicting terrorists, Paul was blowing hot air in a subcommittee, to which Paul responded that he didn’t trust Obama with his personal records and stabbed Christie by saying “I know you gave him a hug”. “You know, Sen. Paul”, responded Christie.

Baier asked Trump to reconcile his past support of single-payer health care with his opposition to President Obama’s health plan, and what he felt he received in return for past political donations to Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.

Youngman said Kentucky Senator Rand Paul appeared to try to get his name in the headlines along with Trump’s to build some buzz. “‘I want to collect more records from terrorists but less records from other people.’ How are you supposed to know Megyn?” The hugs that I remember are the hugs that I gave to families who lost their people on September 11th.

The spotlight was turned on him right from the start, as moderators from Fox News opened the proceedings by asking all 10 candidates whether they would pledge to support whoever ultimately prevails in the nomination process. Marco Rubio performed well, and was smart to say his youth would be an asset because he represented the future.

Christie took on Paul in the night’s best candidate-to-candidate exchange.

“Overall, the demeanor wasn’t real good“. Meanwhile, one-time front-runner former Gov. Jeb Bush found himself on defense several times and largely avoided tangling with Trump on the Fox News/Facebook stage. “And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either”, he asserted. Trump brushed him off. “I don’t think you heard me”.

“I fully understand” what this means, he says, to a smattering of cheers and boos.

“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct“. “But when you’re No. 1 in the polls, I guess that happens”. “Although I could maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me”.

CNN will host the first Democratic debate in Nevada in October.

A Gravis Marketing post-debate poll released on August 7th found that according to registered Republican voters, Rand Paul was the biggest loser in Thursday’s GOP debate.

Amid all the fireworks, there was little to no chatter during the GOP debate about an issue which Republicans have obsessed for months: Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state and the deadly 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.