A few years ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was seen as the up and coming star of the Republican Party.
But the run by the Indian-American for the White House has been a disappointment so far, as once again he was stuck on the “junior varsity” debate stage Wednesday night.
However, Jindal tried to take command by reframing a challenging question concerning his support of for-profit colleges into a larger defense of limited government.
Jindal said for-profit colleges should be held accountable “by the market.”
Warming to his theme, he said: “You either trust the American people to make their own choices or you don’t. I know the left thinks we need to be protected from ourselves. President Obama’s trying to limit competition in the higher education market. As a result, you’re going to see tuition prices continue to go up. We’ve got a trillion dollars worth of student debt and counting, and he wants to exempt certain schools from the oversight he wants to apply only to the for profit market.”
Jindal described Louisiana’s efforts to reform education before repeating his line about “trusting” the American people. He went on to blame Washington’s paternalism for Obamacare, Common Core and what he sees as the desire to “take away our gun rights… and our religious liberty rights.”
“We don’t need the nanny state to protect us from ourselves,” he said, drawing applause.
Google Trends showed Jindal received the second largest numbers of Internet searches for all candidates in the first debate Wednesday.
Coming in first was Sen. Lindsey Graham, who created a huge spike in interest when he shared the hard luck background of his own family as part of his attempt to defend Social Security.
Describing how he and his sister grew up in the back of a bar in one room, he remembered, “When I was 21, my mom was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. Neither parent finished high school. She died within a year. We were wiped out from the medical bills. And if it wasn’t for a Social Security survivor benefit check coming into my family, we wouldn’t have made it because my dad died 15 months later.”
Graham appeared on the brink of tears several times during the debate, but was also cracking jokes at times. He was widely viewed on social media as having a strong showing, gleefully noting on the CNBC interview after the debate, “I enjoyed the hell out of it.”
The comments came in the “kiddie table” part of the events hosted by CNBC at the Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colorado.
The candidates in the early debate, Sen. Rick Santorum, Jindal, Gov. George Pataki and Graham, are polling at the bottom of the GOP field at this point.
The following 10 candidates took the stage later: Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
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