Sixth Republican Debate: Trump and Cruise's First Fight

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In North Charleston, South Carolina, the sixth presidential debate between Republican parties took place on Thursday evening. On the prime time stage this time there were only seven top-rated participants: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, billionaire Donald Trump, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Ohio Governor John Casick.

The passions at the debate was especially strong, notes The New York Times, as Iowa hosts its first caucus in less than three weeks. A caucus, along with a primary election, is the traditional American way of choosing a candidate within a party. During caucuses, voters gather in public places, discuss candidates, and then write the name of the person they are voting for on a regular piece of paper. The more votes a candidate collects, the more delegates he will have to attend the party congress. In fact, the Iowa caucus kicks off the entire electoral process, and therefore the attention of the press is always focused on it.

During the debates, the applicants tried to consolidate their positions and were more aggressive than ever. Winners of the debate CNN named Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, and Ben Carson and John Kasich as losers.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump stood in the center of the stage and showed dominance with his entire appearance. At this debate, for the first time, he openly clashed with the second number in the Republican rating, Ted Cruz, although he had previously launched an information campaign against him in the media. The billionaire tried to sow doubts in the minds of voters that Cruz could become president of the United States, since he was born in Canada. During the last Republican debate, Trump addressed Cruz directly: "There's a big question mark hanging over your head."

Cruz, a lawyer by training, retorted that he was not even going to comment on such statements and was not going to listen to Trump’s legal advice.

However, this reminded Trump of the Scottish origin of his mother.

For his part, Ted Cruz reproached Trump, who lives in Manhattan, for not being able to represent truly conservative interests, since there are not many conservatives in New York. And Trump, they say, is the bearer of “New York values” (by which they mean democratic and liberal ideology).

PR master Donald Trump did not fail to use this passage from Cruz against himself. He called the words insulting to the “wonderful people” who survived the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York.

“When the World Trade Center came down, I saw that there was no place on Earth that was treated more beautifully, more humanely, than in New York,” Trump said to applause.

Ted Cruz

Cruise, who, according to recent polls, is catching up with Trump's Iowa rated, was convincing and got a lot of screen time.

A senator from the state of Texas in the opening speech criticized the reaction of President Barack Obama to the recent incident with the 10 detention of American sailors in the territorial waters of Iran in the Persian Gulf.

“If I am elected president, not a single American soldier will kneel,” he said, referring to the video in which American sailors were shown kneeling before the invaders in Iran. He also promised that if elected, Iran would “feel the full power and rage of the United States”.

Cruise has a strong enough position in abortion, arms and gay marriage, which can help him gain the support of conservatives in Iowa.

Marco Rubio

A Florida senator in the last debate was more active than usual. Fresh sociology definitely puts him in third place in the Republican race.

He perfectly “wedged in” in the squabble between Donald and Cruise with his joke, which set the vector for further debates.

After that, the leading Republican candidates elected President Obama and Democratic candidate candidate Hillary Clinton as their targets.

“I am convinced that if this president could confiscate all the weapons in America, he would have done so. I am convinced that if he could get rid of the Second Amendment, he would have done that, ”Rubio added, referring to the amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees the Americans the right to bear arms, writes“Voice of America».

Rubio also showed himself to be in an immigration dispute, accusing Ted Cruz of frequently changing positions.

“On immigration, Ted Cruz, you initially supported doubling the number of green cards. And now you say you are against it. You supported a 500% increase in work visas, and now you are against it. You were for the right to provide American citizenship at birth, and now you are against it,” Marco Rubio hurled accusations, which put Ted Cruz “on his shoulder.” Cruz actually supported these innovations, but recently began to advocate limiting legal immigration.

Rubio also said that if elected, he would focus his efforts not on limiting the circulation of weapons, but on eradicating terrorist groups, including the “Islamic State,” which, according to the candidate, Obama “invariably underestimates.”

Chris Christie

Speech by the governor of the state of New Jersey at the debate was also one of the strongest during the election campaign. He constantly appealed to his experience in the fight against terrorism at the post of US federal prosecutor, stressing that he was the only one standing on the stage to have such a background.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also criticized Obama, promising to “kick him out” of the White House and calling him “boy” and “naughty child.” The Republican candidate expressed dissatisfaction with the optimistic mood of the recent presidential address on the state of affairs in the country. “On Tuesday evening I listened to the tales of Barack Obama, where he portrayed that everything is fine in the country,” Christie quipped.

However, some of the statements of the governor of New Jersey, as it turned out with detailed verification of the facts, do not correspond to reality. Here is just one example. Christie claimed that he “never made a personal contribution to the Family Planning Center.” But in the 1994 year, he said otherwise: “I donate to the Family Planning Center in private. It is also not a secret that I am for the choice. ”(True, now Christie claims that he was misquoted).

Ohio Governor John Kasic, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Jeb Bush also participated in the debate. However, their performances only once again confirmed that these Republican applicants have already lost their chance to win the primaries.

The primaries begin in February. By tradition, the first primaries will be held in Iowa. Presidential elections will be held in November.