Republican Presidential Debate: Live Coverage

Kasich talks about the need for skilled workers. Yesterday, I visited a manufacturing training facility run by Eastern Iowa Community Colleges here in Davenport. They’re training Iowans in skills such as welding, machining and other advanced manufacturing techniques. The demand for workers is there: At a job fair yesterday evening, companies lined up looking for skilled workers.

No questions on race or policing so far. Meanwhile, the sheriff’s deputy who flipped a black student out of her chair in South Carolina was fired today, and many other police officers in classrooms operate with little supervision.

I agree with the many people saying Ted Cruz is having a great debate, but I still don’t think he’s in the league of “the one to beat.” First of all, he was born in Canada. <Ducking.> Seriously, he’s alienated plenty of the Republican establishment, which will work against who helps him in their localities. On the other hand, he has a strong ground game in unusual stomping grounds like the territory of Guam, which does matter in the process.