5 questions about the Republican presidential debates The idea was to prevent chaos. Instead, efforts to control this season’s Republican presidential primary debates have injected greater uncertainty into an already volatile process. With the first debate just a couple of months in the offing, and with somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 candidates jockeying for position, the upcoming series of jousts is […]
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz continue newfound feud The smaller stage may have sharpened the exchanges among candidates in the sixth debate of the Republican campaign, said Alan Schroeder, a debate scholar at Northeastern University and the author of Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV. Trump probably had his best debate of the campaign, Schroeder said, while Cruz seemed ill-prepared for the questions about his birthplace […]