Fiorina made her mark as one of the strongest foils to Trump, who has led Republican presidential preference polls throughout the summer.
Spencer acknowledged that the candidates who talked about Reagan at the debate did so as tribute to the former president and that was appropriate. “He’s a narcissist who only believes in himself”, he said.
After a marathon main debate that include confrontations between Trump, Bush, Carly Fiorina and others, he laughed at the notion of less give-and-take.
Republican presidential candidates, from left, former Pennsylvania… Bush drew the biggest applause when he picked “Eveready”, then turned to Trump to note it was a “high-energy” name – a nod to Trump’s criticism of Bush as a low-energy candidate.
Trump’s unexpected rise and surprising durability is seen as a reflection of voters’ frustration with Washington and career politicians.
It was the only debate attendee with an extensive track record of presidential experience: From 1973 to until its decommissioning in 2001, SAM 27000 operated as the mobile Oval Office for seven presidents, from Nixon to George W. Bush.
Early in her tenure as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co., she proposed a merger with Compaq Computer Corp. But the dystopia portrayed by Cruz, Fiorina, Huckabee, Rubio and others is a world apart from the land where Bush and Kasich dwell.
“Vladimir Putin would get the message”, she said. Though he is plainly and demonstrably wrong, the two doctors on stage – retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Kentucky Sen. Ted Cruz seized opportunities to stand out on the crowded 11-candidate stage. But with both the Reagan Library and CNN handling logistics, several campaign staffers mentioned the confusion, and said they felt they had a better grasp of things during the Fox debate.
Sen. Marco Rubio was able to effectively corner him on his lack of foreign policy knowledge.
Shirley also noted that the 11th commandment has also been misinterpreted.
Graham and Pataki said it’s impractical to deport all estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally. “Congratulations. The middle class in this country who’s getting plowed under by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, let’s start talking about those issues tonight and stop this childish back-and-forth between the two of you“.
Billionaire U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he does not want the $400,000 annual salary that comes with the White House job and would turn it down if elected. “His format is walking around New Hampshire and speaking to a hundred people in one of those town halls, John really excels at that”. This was largely Trump’s contribution to the foreign policy debate: I’ll figure it out later, and by the way, you all suck. Was he a government-shrinking, undocumented immigrant-bashing, climate change-denying, abortion-curbing political granddaddy of today’s Republican presidential hopefuls? “I don’t think so”, Trump said. “The courts can’t legislate”, he said.
Still, Huckabee declined to criticize Bush for saying Davis did not have the right to deny gays marriage licenses.
The debate is also incredibly long.
Study after study has found that vaccines are safe and do not cause autism.
Even as Trump faded somewhat in the policy discussions, he was hardly invisible. Given a choice, I would rather attend a wedding at the Nixon Library than observe a Republican debate at Reagan’s ostentatious venue. But the theory that the Trump Show can be exhausted-that if you work him long enough, he’ll be exposed as hollow and drained of bombast-was resuscitated.
Trump: “Rand Paul shouldn’t even be on this stage”.
Later in the evening, Fiorina was asked another Trump-related question – his comment about her “face” in a recent Rolling Stone article.