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Republican candidates grab the mallet

“Nasty” guys and “liar” – in the pre-election campaign of US-Republicans, the sounds sharper, the attacks are always personal. Jeb Bush had, among other things, for his brother George W. to justify.

Donald trump’s Silhouette during the TV debate

In the ninth TV debate of the conservative presidential candidates in the Greenville area, in the state of South Carolina, in particular, Florida’s Ex-Governor Jeb Bush and the ore conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a fierce verbal fights with the Multimilliardär Donald Trump delivered. Repeated were the words “liar” and “nasty”. So heated was the dispute at one point, that competitor John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, said: “This is crazy.”

South Carolina is the site of the next Republican primaries next Saturday. Bush has given for his election campaign in South Carolina, his brother, former President George W. Bush, hired the time the Iraq war had begun. It, and on the topic of Immigration inflamed the lautstärksten exchange.

Trump attacked in front of all his rivals Jeb Bush and his brother George W. Bush. Its the Iraq war was “a big, fat mistake” have been called Trump. Jeb Bush, countered: “While Donald Trump a Reality TV Show created, built my brother a security apparatus, to all of us to protect.”

Jeb Bush (l.) and Donald Trump (r.) talk, once again, at the same time

But Trump replied back: “The World Trade Center collapsed during the reign of her brother. Do you remember.” Jeb Bush threw Trump then before, he was referring to his foreign policy knowledge “from television”. Trump responded with the remark, that Bush’s strong 90-year-old mother had better run as your son Jeb.

Cut and thrust

The debate slipped off to the moderators again and again. The candidates fell into the word. Trump referred to Ted Cruz as “evil types”. “Donald, the adults learn not to interrupt”, sought out Cruz to fight back. But also from Marco Rubio, he was attacked. On an accusation of Cruz, that he is not a real Conservative, replied to Trump the Senator: “You are the single biggest liar. You’re probably even worse than Jeb Bush.”

Trump leads in the polls, the ranks of the Republican candidate, Jeb Bush has so far hardly points. Also in South Carolina is Trump as a favorite in the Kandidatenkür, Cruz, and Bush, Kasich and Florida Senator Marco Rubio to fight for the important second and third places.

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