Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio’s work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.
There’s a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.
Barack Obama has said he doesn’t believe in American leadership or America winning – he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.
Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.
The whole world’s on fire.
We’re saying the Washington establishment run behind Donald Trump.
We’re seeing something fairly remarkable happen on the political train. We’re seeing the Washington establishment abandoning Marco Rubio. I think they’ve made the determination that Marco can’t win. And they’re rushing to support Donald Trump.
If as a voter you think what we need is more Republicans in Washington to cut a deal with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, then I guess Donald Trump’s your guy.
I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.
We need to be focused on defeating radical Islamic terrorists.
And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we’re ideally positioned to do exactly that.
What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.
We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they are.
You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops. You use air power directed – and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn’t to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.
We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.
President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.
A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this – gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.
If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals – and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters.
We’re seeing so many people come around and say, “Listen, we want a real conservative. We don’t want a Washington dealmaker who will support Democrats and cut deals to grow government and give into the cronyism and corporate welfare.”