Jim Gilmore mentioned early on in the debate that he’s the only one in the race with military service. That’s smart: According to the Pew Research Center, a candidate with military experience is more appealing to Republicans than he or she is for Democrats. Veterans are no strangers to the White House. Veterans Affairs has recorded that 26 out of 44 U.S. presidents served in the military, the most recent president to have served being George W. Bush, who was in the Air Force reserve during the Vietnam War.
Clare Malone
Carly Fiorina’s I’m-the-only-other-woman-in-this-race tone has curdled a bit — this is the second debate in a row in which she’s talked a whole lot of smack about Clinton on a personal level. The moderators asked her why she made a snide comment last debate that at least she still liked hanging out with her husband (implication, Hillary Clinton doesn’t). Fiorina basically doubled down and suggested that Clinton stayed with her husband out of ambition and that she, Fiorina, would have left her spouse had he done the things that Bill Clinton did. Not exactly the highest tone for the debate.
