Days before the New Hampshire primary, the top seven Republican presidential candidates stretched some facts in the eighth GOP debate.
Sen. Ted Cruz incorrectly claimed that waterboarding doesn’t meet the “generally recognized” definition of torture. The definition he gave reflects a controversial 2002 Bush administration memo.
Businessman Donald Trump claimed that his campaign couldn’t get tickets to the debate and that the RNC told him there were “all donors in the audience.” The RNC told us each candidate received an equal allotment of tickets.
Cruz said his Iowa staffers spread misinformation about Ben Carson suspending his campaign based on CNN’s reporting, claiming CNN “didn’t correct” its story for nearly three hours. That’s false. CNN only reported that Carson wasn’t heading directly to New Hampshire after the Iowa caucus.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Sen. Marco Rubio was incorrect in claiming that New Jersey’s credit rating had been downgraded nine times under Christie. The state’s debt rating has been lowered nine times all told by three different rating agencies.
In referring to terrorists, Rubio claimed that “we’re not interrogating anybody right now.” Not true. What has changed is that the administration no longer subjects terrorism suspects to indefinite interrogation at Guantanamo Bay.
Cruz said he would “end welfare benefits for those here illegally.” But immigrants in the U.S. illegally are already barred from receiving most government benefits, including food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
Rubio said Hillary Clinton “believes that all abortion should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child.” Clinton has said she’s “open” to restrictions on late-term abortions if there are exceptions for endangerment of the life and health of the mother.
Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich argued over whether Ohio had a bigger government in terms of employees now than when Kasich took office. That depends on whether one counts state university employees.
And we heard claims we’ve written about before — on the Iran hostage crisis, Planned Parenthood and deportations of immigrants.analysis in article but the inherent propensity to just lie should disturb everyone including their base are they that dense they don't realize the lies are focused on them they are the ones they want to persuade/fool they hurt the entire country with their deceptive antics than rail about how Pres. is responsible for everything wrong.
G W Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on". ignorance is bliss but manipulated ignorance is deplorable and reprehensible because they use people who believe in them and a cause that is equally as despicable losing it causes some really desperate attempts to keep it that being a false sense of superiority.
