The many faces of the CNN GOP debate in GIFs

The fifth debate averaged 18 million viewers on on Tuesday, persevering with the run of monster scores for the occasions that in previous years have been watched principally by political junkies at this level of the marketing campaign cycle.

“They’re ready to die”.

Other candidates, including Sen.

Debate performance is a subjective art, which explains how three different candidates can tweet proclamations of their own victories in the same debate.

Their conflict has seemed inevitable; Trump, the brash nonpolitician, is the antithesis of Bush, the son and brother of presidents, immersed in politics his entire life. And it was widows and orphans, by the way, and we now know from watching the San Bernardino attack that women can commit heinous, heinous acts against humanity just the same as men can do it. So I don’t back away from that position for a minute. George Pataki was a governor of the Empire State and the only thing he has going for himself is the fact that he is probably the tallest candidate.

Later in the night, Bush landed one more blow, saying Trump got his policy positions from TV shows, but, “I don’t know if that’s Saturday morning or Sunday morning”. Among establishment favorites, Jeb Bush says he has the resources to last into March. He was largely spared from criticism by Cruz and Rubio, who said they understood why Trump had raised the idea of banning Muslims. Unfortunately for Bush, Republicans have tuned him out.

Carly Fiorina was once a rising star. “As he emerges again, at least in New Hampshire, the other candidates will focus negative fire on him and remind Republicans what they came to dislike about him”. Why did she feel like she had to go there?

Twitter was busy during the CNN Republican Debate, during which 8.5 million people in the USA saw one or more of the 2.4 million tweets that were sent, according to Nielsen.

RUBIO: It’s easy to stand up and say I will destroy ISIS; I will make the sands in the Middle East glow in the dark. A scared voter is a motivated voter, and Republicans have every interest in keeping people as terrified as possible. Marco Rubio went head-to-head on immigration policy. He appears to enjoy scrapping with his fellow candidates but doesn’t project the witty humor Kennedy used when he sparred with the press. “You know, you started off over here, Jeb”. But what about Cruz and some of the other candidates? Now, that number has risen to 19 percent.

Trump gives the impression that he doesn’t give a crap whether he wins or not.

But now the recent attacks are certain to be broached to the White House hopefuls.

Because Trump is buckled up for the thrill of it all, it is easy for him to dismiss anyone who looks at him askew or seeks to question anything he might utter.

As Paul noted in the clip above, during the debate Trump doubled down on his proposal to kill terrorists’ family members, which violates the Geneva Conventions. It’s an all or nothing view of what needs to be done; nothing half-baked.

In 12 presidential elections since 1956 with polling available (we’re missing 1992, 1996 and 2000), Gallup or CBS News asked Americans in the fall of the election year what the most important problem facing the country was. While Blitzer’s claim was equal parts fear-inducing nonsense and equal parts glib, it is true that the Paris and San Bernardino attacks have America falling back to Bush-era levels of panic, but it’s comparable to 2005 (after the London bombing of 7/7), not post-9/11. NPR’s Sarah McCammon was with one of those candidates, Senator Marco Rubio, today in Manchester, N.H. And, Sarah, Rubio was central to one of the big kind of debate battles last night which was over the now-defunct program to collect bulk data on Americans’ phone records. Most are left of center. Border security is national security. It’s so ineffective. It’s so ineffectual that the American people say we don’t trust them to do anything anymore, so I’m not going to let Syrian refugees, any Syrian refugees, into this country.

Like many Republicans, Cruz is not a fan of what he called the “Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight” bill, the bipartisan immigration legislation that passed in the Senate two years ago.