The third GOP debate was held this past Wednesday on October 28th in Boulder, at the University of Colorado. The debate, held by CNBC, was to be focused on issues of economics and, obligingly titled “Your Money, Your Vote”, held the top ten highest polling Republican candidates in conversation over a wide variety of subjects. Moderated by Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick, and John Harwood, the debate lasted eight minutes under two hours.
While economics was to be the primary subject of content engaged in by the ten candidates polling above three percent, in numerous instances, the moderators were often subjected to attacks, being accused in large part of being the liberal media.
Marco Rubio in response to an editorial published by the Sun Sentinel editorial remarked – …show more content…
Missing over 30 percent of his votes. I don’t recall them calling for his resignation.
Later that year,” Rubio continued, interrupting Quintanilla’s attempt to get him back to responding to the question, “John Kerry ran for president missing close to 60 to 70 percent of his votes. I don’t the Sun Sentinal – in fact the Sun Sentinal endorsed him. In 2008 Barrack Obama missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes and the same newspaper endorsed him again. So this is another example of the double standard that exists in this country between the mainstream media and the Conservative movement.”
Further in the debate, as Quintanilla approached Ted Cruz with a question pertaining to his dissent on the deal met out with Congress about the raising of the debt ceiling, whether or not this makes him the kind of problem solver American voters want, Cruz goes after the media as well:
“You know, just let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the