CBS Republican Debate: Live Coverage

Trump is still leading in South Carolina. But the state has a strong cohort of evangelical voters, and I’ve spoken to some who find Trump’s language and ad-hominem attacks offensive. The polls will show whether Trump’s numbers go down, and the exit polls from the South Carolina primary will also let us know if evangelical voters broadly reject or embrace Trump.

The candidates are discussing immigration through the lens of who should be deported. But there’s another issue on the table — H-1B visas for skilled workers. And there, the differences between candidates are possibly more profound. Rubio and Cruz both favor expanding the number of H-1B visas, while Trump wants to raise the wages for these workers, bringing their salaries more in line with domestic skilled workers, such as computer coders, and presumably pushing companies to hire more domestic workers.