Republican Candidates Spar Over National Security In Debate In Las Vegas

Trump, who is leading in the polls, was also booed by the audience at one point of the debate.

He said he liked what he heard from Rubio on Wednesday and in the previous night’s debate.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said that the proposal wouldn’t keep Americans safe, and that it would instead “help our enemies”.

The two confrontations dominated the interchanges, while the rest of the candidates concentrated their attacks on President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

“You know, I don’t care if a guy like Jeb Bush never endorses me”, Trump said.

Not to be outdone, Donald Trump defended his proposal to kill the families of terrorists – notwithstanding Sen.

On Tuesday, Rubio attacked Cruz on national security, particularly his decision to not support legislation that would provide more military funding. “It’s been a total disaster”, Trump said. But Trump has neither backed down nor dropped in national opinion polls.

After his relegation to the undercard debate last time out, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sought to make the most of his return trip to the main event stage.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. And he’d be a chaos president.

Bush’s comments were the most forceful of the other candidates in criticizing Trump’s Muslim ban.

Another GOP debate, and yet another opportunity for the presidential candidates to display the full blossom of falsehoods, idiocies and misdirections that constitute the party these days. Cruz effectively said he would bar those from several Middle Eastern countries.

Trump was asked about his contention that Cruz didn’t have the right temperament to be president.

“Radical Islamic terrorism came into effect even more so than it has been in the past”. And he sounded serious to me last night.

“I am reminded of what FDR’s grandfather said”.

“They talked about some important issues, like Assad and getting rid of dictators, thought it was pretty interesting”, said WMU student Rachel Lubin.

His supporters, unsurprisingly, were impressed by Trump’s debate performance.

Trump called Cruz a “maniac” on Sunday, an indication that he is prepared to attack Cruz as he has other rivals.

Here & Now’s GOP political analyst Paris Dennard speaks with host Jeremy Hobson about the debate’s highlights and what it may mean as the candidates head into 2016. This morning all the overnight polls and social media are pointing to him winning this debate. We’re going to get rid of that.’ What are you going to do, though? Then look at someone like Ben Carson, who spoke three times during the debate’s first hour.