Here are the highlights from Wednesday night’s GOP presidential primary debates:
10 against Trump: Rivals take on GOP top dog
Donald Trump may be leading the pack in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but he had a big target on his back at the Wednesday prime-time debate, and many of his 10 rivals onstage took dead aim.
The second GOP candidate debate event was held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on a red and blue stage with the former commander in chief’s Air Force One as a striking backdrop.
The event featured the 11 leading Republican candidates: Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina.
GOP candidates to get first real grilling
Wednesday night’s debate covered five main issues: Immigration, how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program, the economy and jobs, and religious liberty issues. One issue that was many expected to be discussed that was not mentioned was the refugee crisis in Europe and President Obama’s decision to take 85,000 of the world’s foreign refugees in fiscal 2016 and up to 100,000 in 2017, which represent huge increases over the current 70,000.
Last chance! 4 GOP contenders spar in ‘kiddie debate’
Four long-shot GOP presidential candidates aggressively competed for the spotlight in Wednesday’s “undercard” debate – hoping to use the event as a springboard to break out of the lower-polling pack and join top-tier Republican candidates.
The contenders – former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former New York Gov. George Pataki – took the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, at 6 p.m. EST. The issues they discussed included illegal immigration, ISIS, the refugee crisis, Planned Parenthood funding, Iran, the U.S. economy and religious freedom.
Trump: Only U.S. ‘stupid enough’ for birthright citizenship
GOP presidential race frontrunner Donald Trump slammed the United States for allowing birthright citizenship during Wednesday’s CNN debate.
“A woman gets pregnant,” Trump said. “She’s nine months. She walks across the border. She has the baby in the United States, and we take care of the baby for 85 years? I don’t think so.”
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Cruz: Are Planned Parenthood values your values?
Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday used CNN’s debate for GOP presidential candidates to double down on his push to defund Planned Parenthood, which is been in the headlines for weeks ago as a pro-life activist group has released a multitude of undercover videos.
They address the topic of the baby body parts trade run by Planned Parenthood, and feature statements from Planned Parenthood executives about what a public relations disaster it would be for the public to find out that some abortionists are profiting from the trade.
The videos also reveal several Planned Parenthood executives callously discussing the price of body parts, and insisting on being paid “per specimen,” even though it’s illegal to profit from the sale of baby body parts in America.
Fiorina: ‘This is about changing the system’
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said it’s not hard to figure why non-politicians have been dominating the polls for the election that is a little more than a year away.
The two top leaders in the GOP race so far are billionaire Donald Trump and surgeon Dr. Ben Carson. Fiorina hasn’t been in the top two yet, but is surging among the more than a dozen other candidates, who mostly are political insiders.
“If someone’s been in the system their whole life, they don’t know how broken the system is,” she said. “A fish swims in water; it doesn’t know it’s water. It’s not that politicians are bad people, it’s that they’ve been in that system forever.”
Jeb steps up ‘energy’ in GOP debate
CNN promised viewers in advance of its Wednesday debate for GOP candidates for president that it would be more combative.
It delivered.
From the beginning, the sparks flew over frontrunner Donald Trump as moderator Jake Tapper tried to bait other candidates into a shot at him.
Initially, candidates dodged the questions. Then the gloves came off. Trump launched an attack on Sen. Rand Paul, saying the Kentucky senator did not belong on the main stage with his measly “1 percent” in the polls.
Bush, who had promised a more combative approach, refused to back down until Trump remarked, “More energy tonight, I like that.”
Jindal: Trump only believes in …Trump
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal came out swinging Wednesday at the CNN-sponsored Republican presidential candidate debate.
His target?
The front-runner.
“Let’s stop treating Donald Trump as a Republican,” he said.
Jindal slammed Trump as “not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an independent. Donald Trump believes in Donald Trump.”
Pataki: Trump is unfit for Oval Office
During Wednesday’s early Republican presidential debate for the second tier of candidates – those who have only a few percentage points of support – former New York Gov. George Pataki refused to say whether he will support Donald Trump should the real estate magnate become the party’s nominee.
But he did express his feelings.
“Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee. Period. Flat-out. I guarantee you that,” he said.
Santorum uses GOP debate to blast ‘judicial supremacy’
Former Sen. Rick Santorum ripped “judicial supremacy” in the first round of the Republican debate, passionately arguing for the rights of Christians to obey their conscience rather than the law when it comes to issues like “gay marriage.”
Santorum also mourned the loss of Christian faith in America, citing the example of a victim in the Columbine shootings who was remembered as a hero after she reportedly confessed her Christian faith before being killed.
The issue has been in the news for several weeks as Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis was ordered jailed by Judge David Bunning after she refused his order to violate her faith and issue “same-sex marriage” licenses.
Gov. George Pataki charged: “There is a place where religion supersedes the rule of law. It’s called Iran.”
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared he would “do what the left does” and appoint judges who can be trusted to defend a particular political point of view after establishing a firm “litmus test” on issues like abortion.
GOP candidates agree on vaccines!
The topic of vaccination came up near the end of Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate, and three of the candidates agreed that American doctors have become too vaccine-happy.
Moderator Jake Tapper confronted Donald Trump about his claim that vaccines cause autism.
The real estate tycoon claimed there have been many instances of vaccines ruining people’s lives, including a baby of one of his employees recently receiving a vaccine, developing a fever a week later, and subsequently becoming autistic.
Rand Paul: ‘Why are we world’s patsies?’
Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday took to his podium at the second GOP presidential debate and challenged the generally pro-interventionist tone of the candidates when it came to foreign policy.
He charged the Islamic State would have won the civil war in Syria had the United States bombed the regime of Bashar al-Assad, and he said there should be no further intervention in Iraq by ground forces.
“I think this gets to the point of wisdom on when to intervene and when we shouldn’t,” Paul declared. “Had we bombed Assad at the time, like President Obama wanted, and like Hillary Clinton wanted and many Republicans wanted, I think ISIS would be in Damascus today. I think ISIS would be in charge of Syria had we bombed Assad.”
Related column: Why Republicans are losers by Joseph Farah
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