GOP 2016 candidate Carly Fiorina says Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton “flunks economics” if she believes the economy is better with a Democrat in the White House. “Whose economy is she talking about? The middle class has shrunk under the Obama administration,” Fiorina responded in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Consumers of political news should understand that the biases of debate moderators are highly relevant. It doesn’t mean moderators with strong views are incapable of running a good debate, but the networks really ought to make portfolios of their moderators’ political history available for easy public consumption. It is fair to ask what sort of perspective these CNBC moderators bring to the presidential contest.
CNBC agrees it will limit its Republican presidential debate to two hours, after Donald Trump and Ben Carson threatened to boycott it if it ran longer.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the way the establishment is selecting candidates to participate in the upcoming Republican presidential debate is improperly creating a national primary.
Polling in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire should be considered when determining which candidates appear on the main stage in the upcoming Republican presidential primary debate, staffers for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s campaign argue.
Sen. Marco Rubio still supports immigration reform, including the ability for illegal immigrants to apply for green cards. But in a recent media interview, he admitted that his quest for reform would be difficult to pass through Congress, even acknowledging that critics have a valid argument against it.
Only candidates earning an average of three percent support in selected national polls will be allowed on the next GOP prime time debate stage, according to CNBC.
CNBC will host the debate, on October 28 in Colorado, but the network – along with the RNC – won’t reveal polling and cut-off criteria for the GOP candidates, something GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said is not fair. “I think it’s because they don’t know what the criteria should be, which is kind of unfair,” Carson told Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle during Breitbart News Sunday.
In an interview with John Harwood Wednesday on CNBC’s “Speakeasy,” Republican presidential candidate and the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina said her rival Donald Trump is “going to be hearing quite a lot from me,” at the debate tonight.
In an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination, took aim at China, putting the Asia nation in the same category with other “tyrannies” in the world, which he
“So now we are going to blame Twitter or we are going to blame Facebook … well heck, I don’t think that’s the problem,” Chris Christie says. “The problem is, the stuff we put on it. The stuff we put on it is a problem, you know who does that? Someone who takes their device out and types it in. It doesn’t get there by itself.” Christie pointed out that more and more people were frustrated that there was no longer any accountability for one’s actions – especially politicians.
Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley,” network CME floor reporter Rick Santelli offered his thoughts on the day’s dramatic sell-off in U.S. stocks, which is tied to fears about the fall of the Chinese economy. According to Santelli, there’s a disconnect
New York Times columnist Jim Stewart reacted to the report that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down from his position July 1 and appointing Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and former chief, as the interim CEO while they look for a permanent replacement on CNBC’s “Squawk on
On Friday’s “Squawk Box” on CNBC, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), one of the more outspoken proponents of the controversial Trade Promotion Authority, told “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernan that he believed the House has the votes for the measure. “We
Texas is once again ranked at the top state in the U.S. to do business. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says it will get even better in the coming years. The ranking was made by Chief Executive’s 2015 Best and Worst States to Do Business report. The magazine surveys top CEOs from 511 companies across the nation. This is the eleventh year in a row that Texas has topped the list.
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is presenting a new explanation of how he acquired those gruesome injuries on New Year’s Day. During an interview with CNBC, Reid says he was hurt in his own bathroom. But that explanation doesn’t hold up.
The real lesson of this exchange: John Harwood wanted to ambush Ted Cruz with an assault on his credibility, in an interview he had plenty of time to prepare, and the only thing he could come up with was the number of IRS agents Cruz mentioned in a joke. Is that really the ground defenders of the Lyin’ King and Hillary “I didn’t want to carry two cell phones” Clinton want to fight on?
The exact number of agents working for the IRS is not relevant to either the joke Cruz was making, or the serious and legitimate point underlying it: the same government that pronounces itself utterly helpless to keep track of immigration scofflaws, or secure the border, is very aggressive about keeping tabs on law-abiding taxpayers.
Pundits are debating whether Jeb Bush’s Super PAC will succeed in raising $100 million before he formally announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. But big money is only part of the equation. The better question is whether Bush can convince the conservative base to support him. That seems iffy.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been paid to corporations like Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic, and Apple since 2012 in contracts related to the controversial Common Core standards.
More Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship in 2014 than ever before, reports CNBC. In 2014, 3,415 Americans gave up their citizenship–an increase of 416 individuals from the previous high in 2013. The data, which were compiled by Andrew Mitchel of
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that while “vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we had,” he claims he has heard of children who got mental disorders from vaccines on Monday’s “Closing Bell” on CNBC.
End of sequestration signals explosive new spending splurge in Washington; The Iraq war had nothing to do with the federal deficit; Government receipts plunged when the bubbles burst; The high federal deficit is caused by bubbles bursting, not the Iraq war
SAN DIEGO, California Friday morning at the beachside RNC Winter Meeting in San Diego, California, the Republican National Committee laid out a schedule for a limited nine sanctioned Presidential debates ranging from August 2015 through March 2016. Fox news –
Former House Majority Leader-turned-Wall Street investment bank executive Eric Cantor appeared on Twitter for the first time since July to tweet out his Monday CNBC op-ed wherein he offered Republicans advice on how to lead the new Congress.
