CNN will broadcast the debate live on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Espanol, and it will be translated live on Telemundo. The network will also provide a live stream of the debate on CNN.com’s home page and across mobile platforms, available to all users without having to log in.
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer will moderate the debate once again. Telemundo News anchor Maria Celeste Arras, Salem talk radio host Hugh Hewitt and CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash will join Blitzer in questioning the candidates.
Another link for CNN Debate Live: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/republican-debate-live-updates/index.html?bitly
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Bar! We.Shall.See.
It would be refreshing if NONE of them resorted to the gutter that the MSM and GOPe are trying to force them into.
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Think I’ll just pull up a chair here in the bar. Much more comfortable. Manny Garcias Miss Wee. 🙂
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Forget the glass Wee, and hand me the bottle.
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hello stella, thanks for speaking out and watchin’ mah back at the Treehouse “Rush Limbaugh goes full nutter” post today. I read the Treehouse on most days and I’ve gotta tell ya that in the last few months with Donald Trump the comments have turned really really nasty and quite frankly disturbing. It seems that the majority of people there are in full blown Jim Jones kool aid mode. It’s fine to be a passionate supporter of a candidate but…..I really think that some of these people are mentally disturbed…aahhh…any thanks again and you’ve got a really nice site here I’ll be lurking…
Steve Barnhill
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You’re welcome here. Speak up whenever you like, as long as you are respectful, and I know that you are.
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Hours ago I saw Rubio touring the stage and debate site. He already looked pale, wet and shaky, I think this is going to be a bad debate for him.
CNN also said that Trump doesn’t do the pre debate walkthrough 😀
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Do they have Herbert and Barbara on the stage? Do they think seeing them will shake Trump up? Weird. Drudge reported only 6 tickets were available to students.
And what was that nonsense from Rience about having a cohesive party?
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They have been at previous debates, so I doubt that it will shake Trump any. I’m not surprised they are there. It is Texas, and he is a previous President.
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I should pay better attention. I didn’t know that they had been at previous debates.
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Did you see HW make that cut-throat-ing gesture?? I did.
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I saw that like he didn’t want them filming him? He looks terrible, bloated from medication maybe? Maybe he was feeling self conscious.
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Nah. I think he was telling one of them to “let him sleep with the fishes.”
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Rubio smiling and nodding to people during anthem.
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Adjusting coat. Distraction for Trump.
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Maybe not distraction; Trump’s side glance to Rubio while he was adjusting his coat and preening reminded me of myself trying to get one of my offspring’s attention during a ceremony or something to tell them to quit fidgeting or wiggling.
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I saw that. Who was he just talking to?
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Probably nobody; just trying to look personable to someone in the audience. You know, how Trump connects with individuals in his audiences? Hahahah, trying to imitate the Real Donald but prematurely ejaculated his connection.
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Well, it is the American National Anthem. Might not mean as much to him…
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Oh, this zing should get you an award. Insightful!
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so perfect!!!
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How are ya’s, M?? 😀 Miss you! xoxo
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I miss all y’all too! I barely have time to skim through, but loving this election cycle and all the great comments here! xoxo
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This still shot got me going back and watching parts of debate again. Really amazing how many moments seem perfectly choreographed between Ted! and Pubio.
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And Cruz, if your hand is Inside your jacket, truly is closer to your heart. Or a Napoleanic gesture
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Checking for a heartbeat?
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The Stepford Candidate
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Will be switching between the debate and The Longest Day! Ike just said “GO”!
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Jindal’s in the audience. Set up.
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Right behind Don jr. 🙄
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Hey, John’s dad was a mailman!
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REally, I have more on my mind tonite than holes and sex but just gotta say Carson always sounds like he is in the middle of something private.
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Rubio using Trump’s “movement” lingo.
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Bullpucky and LIE about the Democrats. Teddy, Teddy, Teddy. Just talk truthfully.
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He’s reaching out to the Blue Dog Democrats? I think Trump already has them.
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WE BELIEVE YOU, MR. TRUMP!!!!
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Wolf’s head always looked photoshopped onto his body.
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Ted gets specific, which is what people want. Even if he is lying.
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Cool answer by Trump about Sheriff Joe.
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Rubio’s mom a maid at a hotel.
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But was she a citizen at the time?
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I thought the same thing!!!!!!!
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Trump answering Boy Rubio with a Business 101 answer.
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Cnn has Trump coming in and out while Trump talking.
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Throw down the mike Trump, “I’m the only one on this stage who has hired anyone . 😀
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Lots of Trump people in the audience
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TRUMP DOES NOT HIRE illegal immigrants like Cruz just said. Gotta say Cruz just owned Trump.
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Why are we talking a guest worker program, John when we Americans want the jobs! Oh geeze, make legal but not citizens so they all can get SS bennies, welfare, free medical, free school, and on and on.
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Kasich said that “things worked” with immigration during Reagan/Bush? Reagan trusted that immigration would be fixed then, and nothing got done. Things didn’t “work”, they just got worse.
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Kasick’s and Carson’s illegal solves are exactly what we have been doing forever and ever. Just repeating stupidity!
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If Rubio keeps this up he will begin to look petulant.
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Wow! Has anybody heard about Rubio selling a house to lobbyist for a 210,000 profit?
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Feckin’ Rubio and moderator talkin’ Spanish. No bueno. Nyet!! Nada!!
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No! Non! argghhhhhh!
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No mas !Yeb! 😆
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Are the Cubanos Hispanic?
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I suppose, since Spain occupied Cuba back in the day. Not the same as Mexicans or South Americans in thought these days.
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And I hear that Mexicans and Cubans have no love lost between them.
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I hope Trump gets to say he IS bringing the Hispanics to the Republican party, while the Cubanos are pushing them away…..unless we are talking about the ILLEGAL ones.
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Rubio needs to quit furiously scribbling.
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He needs a drink of water. Or something.
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I wonder if the Hispanics that Telemundo polled were citizens?
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Pfffffft. Maybe “citizens” of Juarez or Nuevo Laredo.
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Will Ted answer the question about trusting Trump to nominate justice?????? He knows he lied with a statement earlier about Trump and he was leveled by the fact that Trump had previously at a debate named two conservatives.
Nope, he did not answer the question.
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I’m having to follow along, the net is on the fritz tonight and too slow to watch a live video.
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Trump has to bring up the TPA
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Really don’t know how much longer I can watch this. Ted gets under my skin.
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Rubio and Cruz both are getting under mine. 😡
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Agreed, politician talk.
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Ted has mastered taking Trump out. I am sick to my stomach.
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I don’t think so, Trump has already started his general campaign. That is what we are seeing tonight. With the far left, hate whitey position that Hillary has painted herself into Trump sounds downright conservative.
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Just saw this linked at CTH. WTH is Rubio putting in his mouth?
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Trump must start his rallies with videos of him from the eighties and nineties saying the same things he says today to show that it is a scam that he only recently became a republican. Trump is losing this one because he keeps saying the Reagan soundbite. He needs to point out all the Republicans he gave money to. He needs to put full page in WSJ with list of monies given to Republicans vs what gave to Dems. That list shows where his heart always has been. He needs to take full adds with the false tweet of Beck’s and his own tweet that proves he did not. He must get visuals out in front of people.l
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Did you notice Cruz try to say, again, that Trump would get rid of the 2nd amendment?
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All anyone has to do is listen to his son talk about guns and they’d know what BS that is.
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Cruz keeps saying it, though. Just as he keeps saying that Trump wants universal health care. They are both lies. I hope some people can see through that.
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I figure if people haven’t figured out by now that Cruz has turned into a politician who lies when his lips are moving then they never will.
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Rubio’s repeating comment revealed with his laughing and smiling this is just a game to him. Did you see the glee and gloat so excited? Just a game to him.
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I cannot believe Ted just got his way and get to talk. And now he lies and lies and lies and lies.
Mr. Capitalist, Donald Trump could simple NOT be for socialized medicine. Donald Trump and ANYTHING Socialized is like thee oxymoron of the century.
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F%$^&*&^%$$# YOU Ted!!!!!! Taking care of the indigent (probably spelled that incorrectly) is NOT socialized medicine.
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Is Ted planning on getting rid of Medicaid?
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My, Stella. You have a pretty powerful tweet there.
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P.S.: You spelled it correctly.
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Ted just revealed he is part of the Mitt’s reveal-your-taxes meme! He said the media is going to start in on Donald about his taxes??????????
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Holy Shitski. He just insisted on Trump reveal his taxes.
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I used to like Ted Cruz. No more. He’s a lying snake.
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I lost all respect for Cruz at Iowa.
Obviously Cruz has never been audited and besides that who the heck cares about his taxes?
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It seems the male moderators are getting impatient with the petulant school boys, Rubiboi and Cruzbabee
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No idea why this comment got put here.
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“Swing for the fences” DJT
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😀
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Ted, how can we nominate a candidate who isn’t clearly eligible to be President? Many conservatives believe he isn’t.
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A lot of people do not believe he’s eligible, including those who consider themselves “moderate.”
I’m actually starting to rethink exactly what I believe or at least how I think it should be because we have a lot of American women who leave this country and have children in other countries, including some who move to the middle east. That is a scary thought to me and since it is a scary thought for me it makes me think about how the founding fathers thought.
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A friend of mine was audited every year for at least ten years. It’s not that unusual.
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Well Cruzer must think he’s in a courtroom, prosecuting Trump, well Trumps doing well explaining how he got 45% v 22%…….. Keep talking Cruzer….the necktie is tightening…..
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I was thinking the same thing, colonel. He’s in “cross examination” mode. Not very attractive.
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Heck, my federal tax return was audited one year too. Audits are not unusual at all.
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IRS computers set the parameters. To many deductions, to many forms, The Rangers are scaling Point De Hoc! As Uncle Ronnie said: “The Boys of Point De Hoc”!! Go, Go, Go….
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I know. The reason for my audit was that my child care deductions were large in proportion to my total income. I was totally legal and had all of my receipts. Fortunately.
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Trump in my opinion doesn’t do well, or as well as he should, in these debates. We know of, and so therefore I’m sure he knows of, so much ammo he could fire, but doesn’t. He has a healthcare plan, tell it!
The setup question about Trump picking a Supreme Court judge and if Ted “trusts” him. It is stacked against him but I believe he should be decimating these rubes. Helps to have the questions beforehand, granted, but with his intelligence, I think some prep would be good. He needs a debate coach.
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Cruz doesn’t sound authentic to me. He always talks like a lawyer in court, rather than a regular guy. If I were to pick somebody on that stage other than Donald, it would be Kasich.
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I’ve said over and over I would vote for Cruz if he was the nominee, I’m getting to the point where I will uphold the promise I made to myself after 2012 that from now on I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils and will vote my conscience.
It really isn’t going to matter anyway if the next President signs off on amnesty, our country is gone and I don’t trust any of them with the exception of Trump that they won’t sign off on amnesty.
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The other grown up in the room.
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referring to kasich
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I understand what Trump is trying to do, he is in actuality trying to make a more stable middle East for Israel and he was careful to say he supports Israel but I sure wish he would just state emphatically that we will protect and defend Israel against all enemies.
I have no doubt that he will defend Israel.
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Everything Rubio says is important.
“This is important” he says to bring people back when he is losing the floor.
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What did I miss Donald saying? Computer went blank and when got back there was a bunch of clapping, then Kasich started talking.?????
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“Donald, get back on your meds.” Ted Cruz to Trump.
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Followed by a condescending, “Relax”. I want to B$%# slap him.
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I thought Donald handled it very well.
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That’s rich. Cruz criticizes Trump for interrupting?
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Just read on FB:
Cruz suddenly believes the IRS only audits those who did something wrong?
How did Cruz ever win a case in front of the Supreme Court? He is horrible at arguing?
I guess we know why Cruz and Rubio both went into politics because both of them can’t cross examine worth a crap.
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Whoa, one of my Texan friends who has been with Cruz, gave him money for his Senate run, volunteered for him and has been doing the same for his Presidential run just texted me. We had an agreement since I started supporting Trump that we would not discuss politics until this was over.
I haven’t replied back yet, because I know this is a big deal to her. She has truly believed in Cruz. I don’t know how she has felt about all the other shenanigans because we haven’t talked about it. I wish I could have watched tonight because it must have been really bad for her to be saying this.
Here is what she said:
I am witnessing Cruz joining at the hip with the establishment.
I’m done.
I’m glad I haven’t voted yet.
I am disgusted and sick at my stomach.
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For those of you that watched the debate did Cruz look and/or sound establishment tonight?
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He sounded like either an attorney, or a minister (by turns). He is obviously following the establishment plan to attack Trump.
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If it was so obvious that a hard core supporter saw it, I don’t see how he thought this would help him.
It makes you wonder if he didn’t care and has been promised something or thinks the establishment will get behind him?
I just don’t see any other explanation for someone who has tried to run his campaign as it’s me vs the establishment.
Myself have came to the conclusion before tonight that he is establishment, but you’d think he wouldn’t make it obvious.
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I did talk to her on the phone today. She said she has been troubled by the stuff in Iowa and the over the top religious talk, but that he was the first politician she ever truly trusted. She talked about a one on one conversation she had with him when he was running for Senator.
So she kept wanting to make excuses for his behavior or wanted to think he had gotten in over his head with a Presidential run and was allowing people to run his campaign and make bad decisions.
Then she said during the debate she couldn’t hide her head in the sand anymore, it was obvious to even a blind man that he was doing the work for the establishment. She said she still believes this is not the same man she sat across from a few years ago, but she believes that man no longer exists and it makes her sick.
She said she is going to vote for Trump, not because she necessarily likes him or trusts him but because he’s the only one she can vote for because Rubio is pro-amnesty and establishment, Kasich is a joke and Carson may be a nice guy but he’s not Presidential material, so that only leaves Trump and she just has to hope that he will enforce our immigration laws like he says and secure our border and she’ll just have to put other issues important to her on the back burner.
I’m going to have to find time this weekend to watch the debate because I’m still kind of shocked he was able to lose her support, although it sounds like she was already starting to see he wasn’t the person he sells himself as.
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Comment I came across, “Trump always enjoys smoking a couple of Cubans”.
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Cruz says he’s not a deal maker. Sounds like Obama.
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Big meanness directed at Trump by Carson in closing statement with the who do you want your children to emulate.
Kasich says a poll says he would beat Hillary? It has to be frustrating to have his resume so ignored.
Rubio doing the practiced high school commencement closing speech.
Cruz the preaching lawyer talking backwards and forwards, from side to side, like he is going to what? bring back jobs?
Trump. Talks across the kitchen table to us. And then CNN cuts out the sound. Voice very calming and soothing.
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Well, I never did that before, commenting the entire stretch of a debate while listening to it. Hard work. Thanks all.
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Cruz and Rubio trying to take down Trump 🙂
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Now that’s funny!!!
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Seen on Facebook:
All of you should be watching Lou Dobbs. He’s kicking everybody’s ass and praising Trump to the max. Giddyup.
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