ChosenPredator
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this is the moment WWE trained you for, to ignore the audience and know when they have plants in the audience
Republican Debate 9 [CBS News] Screw you guys, I'm going home
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this is the moment WWE trained you for, to ignore the audience and know when they have plants in the audience
Leona Lewis
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Trump absolutely won tonight.
It doesn't matter that he gave zero in the way of substantive answers. He was the only one on stage who didn't look like a shill tonight, and that's mainly down to the RNC's brazenly transparent crowd engineering.
Embarrassing.
It doesn't matter that he gave zero in the way of substantive answers. He was the only one on stage who didn't look like a shill tonight, and that's mainly down to the RNC's brazenly transparent crowd engineering.
Embarrassing.
JeTmAn81
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I don't think it's important, just a detail. If anything he gets more credit from me for learning it the hard way.
CarpeDeezNutz
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He just sounds like he is trying to come off as some native speaker when it sounds so forced and bad but yeah, anyone voting Republican don't give a shit just that he tried.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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The point is that they only acknowledge that part of themselves when politically convenient while being staunchly anti-immigration
UnforgivenTwin
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That is the most emotion that I have ever seen on Cruz's face before.
I don't know, Cruz seems like someone who has spent considerable energy trying to erase his Spanish roots. He changed his name from Rafael to Ted (at least in public), adopted tough stances against immigrants, and basically became the conservatives' conservative.
For him to say something in Spanish was out there for him, so I commend him for that. It was terrible Spanish (like someone who took 6 months of Spanish would speak), but still.
Thank you!
It doesn't hurt that he made some amazing soundbites as well.
Donald Trump basically made him realize it was a non-issue. He won Iowa, despite Trump screaming about how he wasn't a natural born citizen and will be sued. Marco Rubio doesn't need to hide how Hispanic he is, and neither does Ted.
BreezyLimbo
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It's like Cruz's dad being an immigrant from Cuba, which he mentioned tonight, and yet him still having strong anti-immigration beliefs.
gutter_trash
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Trump being against the war in Iraq may spell trouble for Hillary voting on it
It's going to be so hard for any of them to combat that whole thing too. Forget about this primary, I think it's over and Trump has it. Look ahead, and it makes sense why Sanders has a better shot against him in the fall. If it comes down to Trump/Clinton, I can't imagine just how much stronger that entire point could get. If there is anyone more in the establishment, there aren't many more looked at that than Clinton. It could be very, very interesting.
It's going to be even more of a sticky situation since Trump is already starting to lean a bit more to the middle/left and the primary isn't even done yet. He said a bunch of stuff folks on the other side will love to death already. How can a Republican go up there and take up for saying no to the war in Iraq, speak out against Bush, and on and on? Insanity.
Sounds a bit like a Cuban/English accent. Which makes all kinds of sense.
He was against it like five years later. Hes weird on this point.
cpp_is_king
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I'm not sure if this is going to hurt him with GOP voters, help with independents, both, or neither. The crowd was obviously there just to boo everything he said, so it's hard to get a sense of how the GOP at large will react.
We need to dispel the fiction that Cruz knows how to speak Spanish.
I assume the guy holding up Carson doesn't count.
Someone voted Carson? lmao
As a native Spanish speaker, who lived in the Cuban city of Miami, I say nah. He sounded like any other native born North American would sound after going through a Rosetta Stone module.
Still, he tried though and surprised me.
exmachina64
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Unexpectedly great debate tonight.
Oh my God, must save that image right now. Amazing, lol.
Bornstellar
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Starphoenix
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Jeb just had his entire family's collective soul ripped from through his body by Trump. Don't fault the man for being a little shook.
ChosenPredator
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these things are always saying kasich but he just seems invisible
Fools gold, like Right to Rise!
Someone has to take down Trump. Nobody besides Kasich is running for 2nd place.
Randolph Freelander
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T/F
"Outsider" demographic, like Trumps.
UnforgivenTwin
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He's a courageous consistent conservative who will look out for you and protect your liberties. Unless you are gay or a women.
Thats a tweet thats just dripping with sarcasm
The worst part about Jeb/Trump spats are Trump seems to be able to shut Jeb down in a second regardless of what is being said. Like Jeb just refuses to talk over the dude like he's doing to him.
Politifact: FALSE (sarcasm detector activate)
i don't understand why cruz even got mad that rubio said that. if anything his voters would likely applaud him saying he proudly doesn't know spanish.
I'm sure it will be a slight boon with undecided voters. What Trump could have pointed how is how much G.W. approval ratings tanked over the war. The American public knows it was a huge mistake, there is no way around it. The boos were a really bad look because they don't reflect the public at all and make Jeb look like a huge sellout. Jeb should be his own man, but instead doubles down as an apologist for his brother. Arguing in favor of GW's judgement but refusing to hammer one the mistake and learning from it. It's why Jeb polls so damn low. As for jobs, I don't think anyone can disagree with that issue. That get's people on both sides of the aisle.
cpp_is_king
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I was surprised Trump didn't, for his closing statement, say something like "Look, I'm self-financed. I've said it 100 times, but I'm going to fix all this establishment crap. You see all these people booing me in the audience? Why do you think they're here? Who do you think put them here? They're paid for by Jeb's campaign just to sit there and boo me no matter what I say, because I'm beating him by like 40% in the polls. You put me in office and I answer to you. Not to Jeb, not to these elite donors that the establishment strategically plants in the debates to try to make me look bad. to you. Jeb sold out to these people in the audience, and I'm sitting here shouting over these million dollar boos because I answer to you, not to them, and I.. no YOU are going to Make America Great Again"
Would have killed to see that.
Would have killed to see that.
balladofwindfishes
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Hey now, Trump was nice to Jeb's mother.
The idea for Jeb! is to make it seem like Trump is the terrible terrible bully but it's just making seem Jeb! look weak instead.
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