2016 Republican Candidates "Voters First Forum" - August 3 (C-SPAN at 7:00 pm ET)

C-SPAN ^ | July 31, 2015

[Isara]

C-SPAN Partners with New Hampshire Union Leader
To Bring August 3rd New Hampshire Republican Forum
To A National TV Audience
#Voters First

(For Immediate Release: July 31, 2015) C-SPAN is partnering with the New Hampshire Union Leader and regional newspapers in early presidential caucus and primary states for the New Hampshire newspaper’s August 3rd Voters First Forum and will provide live nationwide coverage, beginning at 6:30 pm ET to 9:30 pm ET.

Fourteen Republican presidential candidates* are participating in the two-hour Forum, which will start at 7pmET at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester on Monday, Aug. 3. Veteran New Hampshire political reporter Jack Heath, host of New Hampshire Today on WGIR-AM Radio, will moderate the event. Each candidate will individually answer two rounds of questions and give a closing statement. Questions are being developed by the editorial staff of The New Hampshire Union Leader, with input from the public.

#VotersFirst participants include:

• fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush
• Gov. Chris Christie
• Ben Carson
• Sen. Ted Cruz
• Carly Fiorina
• Sen. Lindsey Graham
• Gov. Bobby Jindal
• Gov. John Kasich
• fmr. Gov. George Pataki
• Sen. Rand Paul
• fmr. Gov. Rick Perry
• Sen. Marco Rubio
• fmr. Sen. Rick Santorum
• Gov. Scott Walker

C-SPAN coverage begins at 6:30 PM ET with pre-event interviews.C-SPAN will televise the forum, in its entirety, on C-SPAN TV, C-SPAN radio, and livestream on C-SPAN.org. Following the forum at 9:00 PM ET, Jack Heath will join C-SPAN for a 30 minute live call-in program to discuss the event. Hearst TV stations across the US will also be carrying the live two-hour C-SPAN forumfeed and it will stream live on I-Heart Radio.

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[napscoordinator]

Again, don’t care about makeup on TV....yep guys have it on.....of course the make up artist could be for Hillary or Cruz and trying to screw Walker....who knows. I don’t care about that anyway. I only care that Walker has changed Wisconsin into a much more conservative state then when he left. Has Cruz done that for Texas? America? Not so much.

[dandiegirl]

I think there is a debate on FOX for the others before the “top” 10 come on.

[make no mistake]

good info napscoordinator. I keep going back and forth between the two.

[parksstp]

She did good, but you need to calm down a bit.

She was one of the first ones that came out and said we had to respect the law of the land after the disastrous SCOTUS rulings.

Her performance tonight will open the door to the rest of her platform but I think there’s going to be some issues voters will have once it becomes well known.

I’m pretty certain she’ll be in the big Debate on Thursday. The GOP isn’t excluding the only woman in the race, not going to happen.

[dandiegirl]

Cruz has been great on the floor of the senate and in the IRS hearings.

[uncbob]

And he argued and won cases in front of SCOTUS

[nhwingut]

Winners
Carly (on message, great speaker)
Cruz (best orator)
Walker (Convincing)

No damage done
Rubio (Good messaging)
Christie (Strong presence)

Losers
Santorum (angry, self important)
Bush (rusty, nervous sounding)
Perry (not convincing)
Kasich (rambling, vanilla)
Carson (not suited for politics, too nice)
Paul (not strong, seems small)

Waste of time
Graham
Pataki

[dandiegirl]

I was so disgusted with the over the top Trump bashing by Perry that I lost all interest in him.

[dontreadthis]

jeb is a panderer

[make no mistake]

Christi is the only candidate that I will not show up at the polling booths for and it will be the first time since I turned 18. The second amendment is that important and I don’t trust his new answer to it. Even Jeb is for the second amendment.

[jimbo123]

Jeb was worse than expected. No wonder the RATS want him.

[Iscool]

And he totally blew the Dad T-shirt joke then he got cut off by the moderator, lol.

Was so bad I almost felt sorry for him...Almost...

[Isara]

I think you didn't get enough of Ted Cruz today.

Our Standard: The Constitution

Ted Cruz has spent a lifetime fighting to defend the Constitution — our nation’s founding document and the supreme law of the land — which was crafted by our founding fathers to act as chains to bind the mischief of government and to protect the liberties endowed to us by our Creator.

Religious Liberty

• Defended Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties against Obamacare’s contraception mandate.
• Led the way on several cases including a U.S. Supreme Court case that preserved the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Successfully defended the words “under God” in the Texas Pledge of Allegiance and Texas schools’ moment of silence law in federal district court.
• Galvanized national support for Houston pastors who had been subpoenaed by the City of Houston to provide the content of their sermons forcing the City to back down.
• Supported the right of students to display banners containing religious content at school sporting events.
• Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument, winning a 5-4 landmark decision before the U.S. Supreme Court, setting an important national precedent for the right to display similar monuments.
• Fought to help the Boy Scouts of America to reverse a district court ruling barring them from leasing a public park.

Second Amendment

• Played a crucial role in preventing federal legislation to restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
• Authored legislation to strengthen the Second Amendment rights of Americans by allowing interstate firearms sales.
• Led 31 states in District of Columbia v. Heller where the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on firearms in a 5-4 landmark decision.
  • Honored by the National Rifle Association with a 2008 resolution for his leadership in the Heller case, which noted that his “efforts made this victory for the American people possible.”
  • Awarded the NRA’s 2010 Carter-Knight Freedom Fund, which “rewards exemplary activities in the support and protection of the right to Keep and Bear Arms” for his work in the Heller and McDonald cases.
• Argued against unreasonable and burdensome gun restrictions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• Recognized by NRA executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre who observed, “Ted Cruz is one of our nation’s leading defenders of the Second Amendment. For over a decade, Ted has fought tirelessly to defend our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and his leadership was absolutely critical to our major victories before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

U.S. Sovereignty

• Fought and won a landmark ruling for U.S. sovereignty in Medellin v. Texas at the U.S. Supreme Court against 90 foreign nations and the President to ensure the supremacy of U.S. legal system against encroachment by international treaties and rulings of the “World Court.”
• Cosponsored a resolution urging the president not to sign the UN Arms Treaty, which would have subordinated the Second Amendments rights of American citizens to global interests.

Government Overreach

• Called for a special prosecutor to investigate the targeting of conservatives by the IRS.

 

More Proven Records:

• STRONGER, SAFER AMERICA
• LIFE, MARRIAGE & FAMILY
• JOBS & OPPORTUNITY

[napscoordinator]

lol. Thanks. I am surprised that he is only 60....my parents are going on 70 and look younger then him.

[jimbo123]

Cruz was great!

[Iscool]

Cruz did fantastic. Not sure what forum you were watching.

Cruz did real well...The problem is some of us have heard him give the same speech enough times that the excitement is lessened...I would assume there would be plenty of people out there in tv land who had not heard him, and were very impressed...

[4Liberty]

How they did from best to worst - does not mean I’d vote for the ones nearer the top:

1. Cruz - won the event, amazing

2. Rubio - very good performance

3. Graham - very good performance

4. Fiorina - much better than expected

5. Pataki - better than expected

6. Walker - OK but scripted, not sure if he’s ready

7. Carson - OK, but not Presidential material

8. Paul - worse than expected, seemed “off his feed” or tired

9. Jindal - get a hair cut

10. Perry - overly decaf, not presidential material

11. Christie - not presidential material (unless it’s “president of NJ”)

12. Kasich - not presidential material

13. Santorum - forgettable performance

14. Jeb - NO NO NO

[napscoordinator]

Walker has the record of fighting and winning against Democrats. We saw Madison Dems in fits of apoplexy and practically blind with rage over their inability to unseat that guy. Have we forgotten so soon? He does the one thing we ask of any Republican: he fights!

[Democrat_media]

Yes I agree. I’m in Louisiana.The media here has slandered Jindal. But he is great imo.

[newfreep]

2. Rubio - very good performance

3. Graham - very good performance

Put down the crack pipe and walk away...