Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. National Security Fears dominated last nights republican president ial debate. Senators ted cruz and marco rubio tried to make up ground on donald trump. A new National Poll of registered republicans and likely Republican Voters finds trump with his biggest lead yet over his gop rivals. Last nights debate was the first since the attack in san bernardino. The candidates used it to explain policy, attack the obama administration, and take shots at each other. Danielle nottingham is in las vegas and she has our report. Reporter ted cruz and marco rubio went toetotoe. Jeb bush came out swinging and donald trump was his signature self. Nine republicans took the stage at hotel in las vegas where a the first topic was Donald Trumps call to ban muslims from entering into the united states. Trump said he extend it to refuges already here. If obama has brought some to this country, they are leaving, they are going, they are
Published in the new yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation among other outlets. In his cover essay on the invisible bridge for the New York Times book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlsteins gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. Not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta Stone for reading america and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. Perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. True to form, perlstein doesnt condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. For now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found
Race, which is all of a sudden very important again in terms of understanding whats going on right now in todays news and politics. And yes, in 2012 the 2012 republican president ial primary ultimately produced nickname mittens mitt romney as that partys president ial nominee. But at the very beginning of the president ial cycle in 2012, when they first started polling Republican Voters in 2012 on who they wanted to be their nominee, you know who was at the top of the list . You know who was at the top of the heap for republican candidates or potential candidates when they first started polling at the very beginning of that cycle . You want to know who was polling in first place . Donald trump. And im not talking about this president ial cycle for 2016. Im talking about the last one. This is the representative headline. This was about a national cnn poll of Republican Voters taken in april 2011. Donald trump tied for first place. And donald trump ended up at the top of a lot of polls a
Public service reminder. People do not believe me. But look. Its true. This is the official announcement on the website of the great state of mississippi. You see it there in the upper lefthand corner. The secretary of state official seal for mississippi. And then theres the listing for todays holiday in mississippi. Martin luther king and is robert e. Lees birthdays. Both celebrated the third monday in january. Thats mississippi. Here it is on the website, official website of the state of alabama. They just conveniently put it on this little calendar. And you can see on their calendar they actually put robert e. Lee first. In alabama today is robert e. Lee Martin Luther kings birthday. And on the calendar actually right next to todays date that got a little thumbs up. In arkansas, and this is a particularly awkward listing, you can download the announcement of the joint holiday honoring both Martin Luther king and robert e. Lee from the Arkansas State website. And Arkansas State gover
Iowa at the exact at the same time stuff starts to get sketchy. In some cases, it gets downright criminally corrupt. Iowa may be rural and landlocked but iowans are not ru iowans e pros. Be on your toe. We are seven days from iowa. Last time around in 2012 it was six days from iowa when we got a shocki ining change on the republican side. You might remember this. Michelle obama d Michele Bachmann did very well. Six days before the Iowa Caucuses in 2012 michelles statewide campaign cochair announced at a that late date he was changing his allegiance. He would no longer be michelles iowa state cochair. He was going to support ron paul. And the bachmann campaign went nuts. It was a ripple through the race. No one knew what was going on there. Now we do know what was going on there. Turns out Michele Bachmanns iowa cochair switched his allegiance six days before the caucuses because they paid him to. That Michele Bachmann iowa state cochair in 2012. An iowa state senator at the time. He pl