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This Republican debate was one of the nastiest.Posted by POLITICO on Saturday, February 13, 2016
At last night’s GOP debate, Sen. Ted Cruz asserted that presidents shouldn’t appoint Supreme Court justices in the final year of their terms.
Moderator John Dickerson asked Cruz if he would follow the same restriction should he be elected. What followed was a bit of confusion on Cruz’s part and then a crowd booing when facts were introduced.
From Vox:
“Where do you set that date if you’re president?” Dickerson asked. “Does does it begin in election year, in December, November, September? And once you set the date, when you’re president, will you abide by that date?”
Cruz argued that there were “80 years of precedent” of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year. In fact, Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in an election year by a Democratic Congress. Dickerson tried to fact-check Cruz in real time, and the audience was not having it.
“Kennedy was confirmed in ’88,” Dickerson said.
“In ’87,” Cruz said. (Kennedy was nominated in 1987 and confirmed in 1988.)
“That’s the question, is it appointing or confirming?”
“In this case it’s both. If I could finish–” Cruz started.
“I want to get the facts straight for the audience,” Dickerson said. The audience promptly booed. “But I apologize.”
Donald Trump, currently falling in presidential polls, says he wants CNN to pony up $5 million in order for him to appear at the next GOP debate.
From the Washington Post:
Donald Trump has threatened to charge CNN $5 million for his appearance in the next Republican presidential debate, which the network will host on Dec. 15 in Las Vegas.
“How about we do this for CNN: I won’t do the debate unless they pay me five million dollars, all of which money goes to the wounded warriors or goes to vets?” Trump said Monday night to a crowd of about 5,500 at a rally in this central Georgia town, located about 85 miles south of Atlanta. “I would love to do that.”
Stephen Colbert breaks down Tuesday night’s GOP debate to hilarious results.
He basically hits the few points that stuck in my mind; although, I do remember waking up Wednesday morning and wondering, “Was anything of importance said on that stage?”
From Raw Story:
He mocked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who angrily declared he would cut five federal agencies but repeated the Department of Commerce twice after he could name only four that should be eliminated.
“I’m with Sen. Cruz here,” Colbert joked. “I mean, two Departments of Commerce? That is wasteful.”
He also ripped Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants that was modeled after Dwight Eisenhower’s controversial “Operation Wetback.”
“Trump is right — Eisenhower deported over 1 million illegal immigrants back in the 1950s,” Colbert said. “And it must have worked, because Mexicans were never seen here again.”
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After her marathon 11 hour testimony before Congress, I can imagine Hillary Clinton has little sympathy for the Republican candidates who complained about the questions at their two hour debate this week.
Snork!
The folks at Bad Lip Reading give the recent Democratic debate the lip-dub treatment.
If you didn’t know better, you’d swear it was exactly what they said.
Only much funnier.
I just sent this letter to NBC News suspending our partnership for the February Debate: https://t.co/MVke5m2EBm
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) October 30, 2015
Following this week’s GOP presidential debate, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to NBC News stating the RNC is “suspending the partnership” with the network regarding a planned February debate.
The letter came in the wake of intense criticism of how the CBNC debate was handled earlier this week.
Priebus wrote that the partnership was suspended “pending further discussion between the RNC and our presidential campaigns.”
NBC has been scheduled to hold a GOP debate February 26 in Houston.
Although CNBC and NBC News are both owned by NBCUniversal, the two are separate entities; they have different management teams and different locations while often sharing and collaborating on news stories.
I watched the CNBC debate, and while I think the candidates over-reacted to the questions asked (many just ignored the questions), I did think the CNBC team wasn’t prepared or tightly focused enough to keep control of the event. At times, the moderators didn’t seem equipped nor ready with follow up questions.
Yesterday, Carson and Trump informed CNBC in a letter that the length of the debate should be restricted.
A letter from both front runners’ campaign read, “Neither Mr. Trump or Dr. Carson will participate in your debate if it is longer than 120 minutes including commercials and does not include opening and closing statements.”
Trump complained that CNN’s three hour length was “milking” the debate so CNN could sell more ads.
As you can see from Trump’s tweet this morning, CNBC bowed to his wishes.
Other candidates, like Carly Fiorina, pushed for more time saying with 10 candidates it’s hard to get any appreciable exposure.
Democratic (semi) contender Jim Webb makes it clear he was NOT happy with the time allotted to him at this week’s Democratic debate:
“I’ll be very frank here. It was rigged in terms of who was going to get the time on the floor by the way that Anderson Cooper was selecting people to supposedly respond to someone else. I even turned around to Bernie Sanders at one point and said, ‘Bernie, say my name, will you say my name?’ In that kind of environment it was either going to be Mr. Angry or be a potted plant.
“It’s very difficult to win a debate when you don’t have the opportunity to get to speak in the same amount of time on issues as the others get. It’s the reality that the debate was being portrayed as a showdown between Mrs. Clinton and Bernie. But if you are going to be invited to participate and people are going to judge whether you, quote, won or not, at least you should be able to have the kind of time that’s necessary to discuss issues that you care about and have worked on.”