WASHINGTON – Gov Scott Walker, R-Wisc., took the first shot at President Obama at a GOP candidate forum Friday, quipping, “I’d love to play cards with him because he folded on everything in the Iran deal.”
Obama had told Walker he should “bone up” on foreign policy because of his opposition to the deal, but Walker said, “How about that from the guy who called ISIS a JV squad and Somalia a success? It’s about time he boned up on what Americans really care about.”
Walker is one of 10 Republican presidential candidates sharing their solutions to America’s most pressing issues Friday during a live-streamed post-debate summit in South Carolina – where GOP frontrunner Donald Trump pulled out at the last minute, citing a “significant business transaction” as the reason for his absence.
Heritage Action’s Take Back America forum is being hosted at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville.
Confirmed candidates are: Dr. Ben Carson, Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Gov. Scott Walker, Gov. Chris Christie, Dr. Rand Paul, Sen. Rick Santorum and Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Walker also offered support to senators who want to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood in the upcoming budget battle.
“I don’t buy this nonsense about Senate rules,” he proclaimed. “There aren’t 60 votes out there. I gotta tell you something. The Democrats don’t play by those rules. They passed Obamacare with 51 votes. It’s time we sent the president a bill that defunds Planned Parenthood with 51 votes in the United States Senate.”
The governor paused while the crowd erupted in wild applause.
He then took aim at critics of those such as Sen. Cruz who advocate using all means to defund the abortion provider.
“You don’t have to buy into this media talk about government shutdowns. Were not talking about shutdowns. We’re talking about sending a bill to the president that reasonably, responsibly defunds Planned Parenthood and puts that money into other areas that are non-controversial.”
He added, “The president is the one who’s willing to stop and shut down the government. We’re not. You know what we’re standing for? We’re telling the rest of America that we don’t want any more of those videos.”
A moderator pointed out Walker was a critic of shutting down the government in an attempt to defund Obamacare. What was the difference?
Walker evaded the question by insisting he would repeal Obamacare on day one in office as president and install his plan to give power back to patients and healthcare providers.
A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Sept. 16-17, after Wednesday evening’s GOP debates, indicates 59 percent of likely Republican voters now believe Carson is most likely to win the Republican nomination.
Carson is followed by Trump (58 percent), Fiorina (41 percent) and Bush (40 percent).
“Jeb Bush is treading water, but Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina appear to have dramatically improved their chances for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016,” a Rasmussen analysis stated. “Carson is now in a virtual tie with recent front-runner Donald Trump.”
RealClearPolitics’ polling average has Trump leading the GOP pack with 30.5 percent. Carson is at 20 percent, and is followed by Bush (7.8 percent), Cruz (6.8 percent), Rubio (5.3 percent), Huckabee (4.5 percent), Paul (3.3 percent), Fiorina (3.3 percent), Walker (3 percent), Kasich (2.5 percent), Christie (1.5 percent), Santorum (.8 percent), Perry (.8 percent, though he’s no longer running), Jindal (.5 percent) and Lindsay Graham (.3 percent).
Heritage Action for America is the political action arm of the Heritage Foundation, and is dedicated to restoring conservative principles to the presidential debate. The candidates engaged in a dialogue with experts and voters on the policies in Heritage Action’s Opportunity for All, Favoritism to None agenda.
Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., and former Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., are co-hosting the event, which reached maximum capacity earlier this week after 5,000 people registered to attend.
The event is being live streamed on the TakeBackEvent website from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST.
The forum promised to be one of the most substantive policy discussion of the election season, with opportunities for the candidates to answer questions of particular interest to conservative voters. Heritage said it hoped the event would allow the contenders to articulate their visions for America and how each plans to bring “opportunity to all and favoritism to none.”
On Friday afternoon, Red State Editor Eric Erickson thrashed Trump, calling him a “chicken” for cancelling his appearance at the last minute. Erickson suggested Trump’s performance at Wednesday’s GOP debate explains the front-runner’s absence.
“It was obvious to even Donald Trump supporters that he was out of his depth on Wednesday night in Simi Valley, CA,” Erickson wrote. “He did not have a grasp of issues and could not resort to rhetorical hyperbole to answer many of the questions.”
Erickson said the questions at the Heritage event “were guaranteed to be even more substantive.”
“Suddenly, oh so suddenly, a HUGE business transaction has come up on a Friday night and Donald Trump has no one in a vast MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR organization to handle it for him,” he wrote. “So he must bail on the substantive questions in South Carolina to deal with this ‘business transaction.’ Hahahaha. Chicken.”
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