Rubio: Relationship With Former Mentor Bush Is ‘Fine’

We can’t continue to be the policemen of the world”, Mr Trump said, adding that the possible bombing of a Russian aircraft by militants meant “he cannot be in love with these people.

As he has in other recent debates, Trump seemed to fade from the spotlight at times. “Some I don’t totally agree with”. Not of Ben Carson, who has faced questions about details in his personal life story.

“I have no problem with being vetted”, Carson said. “What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting it out there as truth”.

“The Democrats are laughing – because if Republicans join Democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose”, Cruz said.

The debate, the last for the GOP until mid-December, could help shape the course of the campaign into the winter as voters begin to pay more attention to the White House race. “Even having this conversation sends a powerful signal”. “They’re doing high fives in the Clinton campaign when they hear this”, Bush said. “He is absolutely wrong on this”. But we can not do this [raise the minimum wage] if we are going to compete with the rest of the world. Both were dropped from the top-tier debate with low poll numbers in national surveys, sparking criticism for the way networks hosting the debates have determined participation.

But Christie took a deferential approach, aiming to appear above the fray by focusing his attacks on Hillary Clinton.

“I saw the most disgraceful thing I’ve seen this entire campaign a few weeks ago”, he started.

Ben Carson spoke the least, got attacked the least, and still crushed all his opponents on Facebook during the Republican presidential debateTuesday night.

The candidates were huffy even before they took the stage.

After the chaos of the last debate, the fourth Republican presidential debate largely stuck to its focus on the economy, featuring detailed explanations of the candidates’ tax proposals. Yet they continue to dominate the polls.

It was much less of an oops moment during tonight’s debate, but Cruz also got tripped up when trying to also name departments he would gut. Marco Rubio scored 12 percent. Rubio immediately shut Paul down with a feisty comeback, calling the Kentucky senator a “committed isolationist”. “They get in bed with big government”. Many are predicting that since he can’t out-perform fellow-Floridian Rubio, Bush’s candidacy may be near its end. We just can’t do it”-and it was left to the other candidates to make the moral argument against raising the minimum wage”. He was able to block-and-parry Rand Paul’s accusation of his family leave tax credit plan as a $1 trillion welfare program. “There are radical jihadists in the Middle East beheading people and crucifying Christians”.

The other candidates were no tougher on the Florida senator. “We were in sort of a green room setting – each of us were giving a speech at a major economic conference”, she told NBC’s Jimmy Fallon back in September. “One of the reasons I said I wouldn’t be talking to Vladimir Putin right now is because we are speaking to him in a position of weakness brought on by this administration”.