Trump made few mistakes, despite efforts by the moderators and the other candidates to knock him out of the pole position. While Sens. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sparred over past Senate votes, and other candidates repeated lines familiar from the campaign trail, Trump looked comfortable-and solid.
He may not always have had the "right" answer, but he sounded more fluent with his own positions.
At one stage, he even felt confident enough to tangle with members of the audience–supporters, it seemed, of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)- who booed his idea to "infiltrate" Islamic State on the Internet.
"I just can't imagine somebody booing. These are people that want to kill us, folks, and you’re objecting to us infiltrating their conversations? I don’t think so."
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Perhaps Trump simply knows he is sitting on a big lead.
Regardless, Trump won on Tuesday night=at times by fighting hard, at times by letting the stragglers squabble.
There were few personal attacks, no misstatements of his own policies. He faced repeated (and repetitive) attacks from Jeb Bush-often instigated by the moderators, as Trump pointed out–and simply pointed to his poll numbers.
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