Republican Presidential Debate: Live Coverage

Marco Rubio cites the need to revive the American Dream, but social mobility in America is not significantly worse than a generation ago. It is, however, lower than in many other nations … a different analysis, which this debate didn’t touch.

A few minutes ago Carly Fiorina mentioned “zero based budgeting.” What’s so interesting about that is that it was an idea last trumpeted by Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Indeed, the only time a poll mentioned “zero based budgeting” in the Roper Center Archive was in 2007. Back then, it was called a “Democratic proposal.”

Trump touted his role in limiting the debate to two hours. Moderator John Harwood: “Just for the record, the debate was always going to be two hours.” Whoever’s right, the debate has gone past two hours.