More than 18 million people watched Tuesday’s GOP debate. Here are other developments from the day after:
— Trump said he doesn’t want Jeb’s endorsement after a report suggested that Bush’s campaign is studying the implications of refusing to back him in a general. (Ed O’Keefe and Robert Costa)
— The strikingly hawkish stances the candidates staked out could alienate independents in the general election. “Using bellicose language at a moment of pitched voter anxiety, many of the candidates committed themselves to a confrontational set of policies that, while energizing conservative activists, could prove difficult to carry out internationally and poses the risk of a backlash from war-weary swing voters next fall,” write Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Jose A. DelReal.
— Tufts University Professor Daniel W. Drezner says, when it comes to foreign policy, the GOP candidates are “either ignorant or insane”: “What was startling about the debate was just how so many candidates could say so many wrong things about American foreign policy in two hours. … Trump had no clue what the nuclear triad actually is. … Chris Christie said he’d be ready, willing and able to shoot down a Russian fighter over Syria. (He also assured Americans that he’d get along great with Jordan’s King Hussein, who unfortunately has been dead for quite some time.) Carly Fiorina gave a nonsensical answer on how to change the status quo in North Korea. … What’s particularly frustrating is that the Obama administration has plenty of foreign policy warts to pick over.”
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