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Scoring the GOP Debates - Round 8 - Manchester, NH

Scoring the GOP Debates – Round 8 – Manchester, NH

My personal assessment of the GOP debate – Main Event:

Talking times via NPR news & Betsy Woodruff

First of all, the opening introduction of the candidates by the ABC News moderators was badly – badly– bungled. Candidates either didn’t hear their names being called, or they were being called out-of-order, and so they came out on stage in fits and starts, out-of-order, with Ben Carson and Donald…

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Number one, there are currently two hedge fund billionaires running ads against me here in New Hampshire. They started in Iowa. Now, you'd have to ask yourself, why are they running ads against me? And the answer is: Because they know I will go right after them, that I will not let their agenda be America's agenda. Secondly, I think it's important to point out that about 3 percent of my donations come from people in the finance and investment world. You can go to opensecrets.org and check that. I have more donations from students and teachers than I do from people associated with Wall Street. Now, number three -- and let me say this -- when Governor O'Malley was heading the Democratic Governors Association, he had no trouble at all going to Wall Street to raise money to run campaigns for Democratic governors. And he also had no trouble appointing an investment banker to be in charge of his consumer protection bureau when he was governor.

Hillary Clinton, responding to previous criticism during the recent Democratic debate about the source of her donations (Transcript).

When talking about guns, Clinton said, “And in whatever way the three of us can we need to move this agenda forward and begin to deal with the gun lobby and the intimidation that they present.”

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And for my part, I have demonstrated the ability to have the backbone to take on Wall Street in ways that Secretary Clinton never, ever has. In fact, in the last debate, very shamefully, she tried to hide her cozy relationship with Wall Street big banks by invoking the attacks of 9/11.

Former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-Md.), in the recent Democratic debate, referencing Clinton’s remarks from the previous one defending her donations from Wall Street (Transcript).

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I'm running for president because we have a campaign finance system which is corrupt, where billionaires are spending hundreds of millionaires of dollars to buy candidates who will represent their interests rather than the middle class and working families.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), in his opening statement at the Democratic debate in New Hampshire on December 19th, 2015 (Transcript).

Sanders also said, “So I don't think...having said that, I don't think I'm going to get a whole lot of campaign contributions from Wall Street. I don't have a super PAC. I don't want campaign contributions from corporate America

On health care, he added, “This ties into campaign finance reform. The insurance companies, the drug companies are bribing the United States Congress.”

And, “Secretary Clinton, I don't have a super PAC. I don't get any money from Wall Street. You have gotten a whole lot of money over the years from Wall Street.”

Also: “Wall Street today has too much political power. It has too much economic power. To get deregulated -- listen to this, they spent $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions over a 10-year period.”

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Check out the link to catch up to what you might've missed in tonight's debate. Who are the winners and losers?

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Jake Tapper in the spin room: Make him a moderator next time, ABC!

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Rick Santorum really likes Newt Gingrich: He just admitted that he was inspired to run for Congress in part because of Gingrich's tapes back in the late '80s. Guess we know who he's voting for.