Trump leads GOP heading into tonight’s debate

As Senator Rand Paul prepares for the second Republican presidential debate Wednesday night, he’s setting his crosshairs firmly on GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

The billionaire’s unexpected durability has some of his rivals shifting their strategy for Wednesday’s second showdown. Trump’s remarks were widely condemned by activists and politicians and fired up an already-intensifying rivalry between Trump and Fiorina.

And, unless they prove otherwise quickly, they’ll soon be the forgotten…Until one is remembered when the Republican nominee picks a running mate.

Tonight’s debate is being televised live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on CNN with the smaller debate at 6 and the main one at 8. “I think you’re going to have – I think you’re going to see a big impact on autism”. Just last week, Trump took a shot at Fiorina, saying “Look at that face!” Trump and Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard executive and only woman in the GOP field, emphasized how their business backgrounds would help them negotiate with hard world leaders, including Russia’s president.

Mr Trump followed up with “I think she’s got a attractive face and I think she’s a handsome woman”.

“I never attacked him on his looks, and believe me there’s plenty of material there”, Mr Trump said. In recent interviews and posts on social media, the former Florida governor has repeatedly questioned Trump’s conservative bonafides, slamming the businessman on immigration, health care and taxes. Let’s stop this childish back and forth.

Mr Paul, the only candidate to directly challenge Mr Trump in the first debate, said he is anxious about having Mr Trump in control of the United States nuclear arsenal. BUT, if you do have cable and get CNN (something most cable packages comes with) then you might want to go through the process of logging on with your cable account info to CNNgo, the news channel’s full-time web streaming portal.

“I want to win and I’ve always had a nice habit of winning”, he said. There will also be a pre-debate tonight in which George Pataki, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum participate.

The round table of observers at KSAT felt that the moderator was pitting the candidates against each other, like asking Trump what he thought about Florida Gov. Jeb Bush making statements that Trump was not a “serious candidate”.