CNBC Undercard Republican Debate: Live Coverage

George Pataki is saying he believes manmade global climate change is real. That shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. According to Gallup, more moderate Republicans (49 percent), like Pataki, believe that effects of pollution from human activity are responsible for the Earth warming than from natural changes (47 percent). The vast majority (70 percent) of conservative Republicans, on the other hand, think it’s natural changes in the environment.

Re: Jindal responding to a question about his minimum tax proposal even on lower-income Americans: The “47 percent” of Americans who paid no income taxes circa 2012 — a comment that helped torpedo Mitt Romney’s trajectory — is now 45 percent.