Tonight’s debate also comes at a crucial point in the GOP primary with tensions running high and establishment candidates struggling against their outsider counterparts.
The group, the Club for Growth, is focusing its considerable firepower first on Iowa, where Mr Trump has leapt to a significant lead over more conventionally credentialed Republican candidates, panicking Republican leaders.
One of those political outsiders, former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina, recently was subjected to a Trump attack when he coarsely criticised Fiorina’s face to Rolling Stone magazine.
She had third-degree burns on 90% of her body caused by the arson attack which was carried out with Molotov cocktails launched against the family home’s bedroom in the village of Duma.
The Israeli police and Palestinians clashed at the holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.
The visitors, said by Israel s Channel 2 television to be students at a Jewish seminary in Brooklyn, were given refuge by a Palestinian man who sheltered them in his home until Israeli security forces arrived to escort them to safety, the police statement said.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is due Friday to submit for presidential approval the makeup of a provisional cabinet which will run Turkey until new elections in November.