All primaries in ohio and florida. They turned up the substance and the points of contrast. That is what they were doing instead of the personal insults we have become accustomed to. Now a different debate. Trade, Social Security and very importantly, islam and what it is and isnt. Among the very hotly contested issues featuring trumps position against the others that were up on the stage. The 11th debate. Im glad somebody has been keeping track. This one was different. Ted cruz looking to solidify his position as the trump will appear together this morning. Reporter its like everyone knew the stakes going into the debail. It raised the level of discourse. Candidates actually dug in on policy. Gop debate. The rivals moving away from the personal attacks of the past. Theyre like this. Little marco. Lying ted. Reporter towards more civil contrast. And trumps competitors argue he doesnt have the details to back up his campaign promises. For u. S. Trade deals trade deals are chutely killing our country. The only way we will be able to do it is taxes. Donald is right, for example. He was just talking about international trade. Hes right about the problem. But his solutions dont work. The effect of a 45 tariff. When youre going to walmart shopping for your kid, the prices you pay go up 45 . The 45 tax is a threat. It will be a tax if they dont behave. Reporter to Social Security. My absolute intention to leave Social Security the way it is. Not increase the edge. And leave it asis. Get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse. The numbers dont add up. We cant tip toe and throw out things like im going to get rid of fraud and abuse. You still have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficit you have to make up. Reporter and mid east peace. If i say im proisrael, listen, i would like to have at least the other side think im somewhat neutral as to them so we can maybe get a deal done. The policy was outlined. I dont know if he realizes its an antiisraeli policy. I dont know if that is your intent. There is no peace deal because there is no one to negotiate with. Reporter the audience chuckling about his response about whether to close the u. S. Embassy in cuba. I would probably have the Embassy Closed until a really good deal was struck by the United States. Heres a good deal. Cuba stops putting people in jail for speaking out. Cuba has freedom of press. Reporter the Sunshine State senator looking for any opportunity to go after trump in a do or die debate for his campaign. Last night said, islam hates us. Did you mean all 1. 68 million muslims . I mean a lot of them. I will stick with what i said to Anderson Cooper. The problem is president s cant say whatever they want. You can be politically correct. I dont want to be politically correct. We have a serious problem. Im not interested in being political correct. Im interested in being correct. We will have to work with the people in muslim faith even as they face a serious crisis within it. There were big moments of contrast. Donald trump went into last nights debate wanting to appear more president ial and above the fray. And i think he will try to continue to do that. Thats exactly where it seems to be headed. Sara murray, thank you very much. He went out to see if he would hold fast to a couple controversial positions. Yes is, overall, it was a kinder, gentler tone. But he was not kinder and gentler when it came to his ideas about islam and his ideas about violence at his own event. I thought it was a very elegant debate. I thought it was very substantive. I think your folks did a great job. I thought it was fair. We needed this kind of debate. This kind of a tone. Do you think it plays to your advantage . I think so. Look, the other is the other. If somebody hits, we hit back. Thats true in life. Its true in running countries. Its true in running businesses. I found this to be a very elegant evening. And everybody did a good job. What would happen if it were you versus ted cruz when youre one on one. You making your own case, how was your confidence level in how that would go . It would go very well. We are doing very well right now. Were leading. We have a lot more people voting for trump than voting for ted. But i like ted. I think we all did a very good job. I thought it was actually terrific and very different. Because it has really been harsh. And i like that also. But i think there was something we were ready for this kind of an evening. I guess you could basically call it the all verse some argument on islam you spoke to anderson and you had theres a hatred coming from islam. No doubt about it. You understand the sensitivity to it. You call it Political Correctness. The counter was it is correctness. I dont want to say anything. Ive answered the question. I answered it many times. We have to get to the bottom of it. You said in the past you hire muslims, you have muslim friends. Youre not saying they are part of the hatred, are you . You look at the mosques and you look at what is going on there. It is 100 . You can say radical islam is a disaster right now. Causing tremendous problems worldwide, not just here. But the question was asked about islam and there is a great hatred, this is no question about it. It makes an environment around the world where muslims feel that the United States has negativity towards them. Were going to have to run open place. We have a country with a lot of problems, a lot of debt. We have so many different problems right now, were just going to do our thing. But the question was asked of me. Ill tell you what, you probably heard the audience. And i dont do it for the audience. I dont care in terms of doing it for the audience. Im not doing it to be incorrect politically. But there is animosity like ive never seen before. Hopefully i can straighten it out. Okay. So much to talk about now. Discuss the big moment of the night with journalist and moderate of meet the press, david gregory, and matt lewis and maeve reston. Glad to have you. Lets talk about our big take aways from last night. Maeve, what jumped out . There was very striking policy contrast on entitlement reform. He has taken an interesting position. Last night in florida he said he doesnt want to touch Social Security. And you had some of his opponents saying we have to do something to change the system. I think that is such an interesting position for him to have taken Going Forward. It has helped him. A lot of moderate blue collar voters. And i think it will be fascinating to see how that debate plays out the next couple of days here. Also, you have older voters when they theyre not going to mess with the check. We know where he was going with that. Where was he going, matt, with all islam has a hatred problem . And he was given many, many chances to qualify that statement. Rubio qualified. Kasich qualified. Cruz qualified it. Where is he going with it . First, we talk about the civility of last night. As you noted earlier, lets not give trump too much for humanity. But his tone has a change in the positions. My book is called dumb to fail. Marco rubio points out you cant fix Social Security by reducing waste, fraud, and abuse. Marco rubio points out we need some islam cups to support us if were going to win the global war on terror. Donald trump paints with a broad brush. But guess what, the voters, primary voters probably reward donald trump for being wrong on all of those issues. On that same topic, david, marco rubio tried to counter what trumped. He had, no, Muslim Americans love this country. He nevered donald trump is flat wrong. He didnt use his name. He never went after him. He just talked about the difference in opinion. Was that effective . I think rubio was trying to do Something Different. I think he was trying to say, look, let me be bigger. Let me be more positive about understanding there are millions of muslims in america, many of whom have fought and died for our country. And i thought he made that without trying to disqualify trump in particular. He was trying to position himself as a future of the represent party. And to be a bigger contrast. Lets not remember that trump is understanding the moment that he is in. He realizes he is on the verge of winning this nomination if he has a big week next week. Wanted to calm down the tone, call for unity, but still wanted to stick to those things that are rallying his core supporters, whether its having a sloppy, xenophobic, really hateful view of islam or not touching Social Security in a state where people dont want you to touch Social Security. He did not apologize for making comment about muslims even though it ovened a lot of people across the country. We have to remember his core supporters love that about him. Even if they dont agree on certain policy aspects, they love that about him. I get what maeve is is saying on other issues. When it comes to this one, i think this is going to be a very big deal about who we are and how we include it. I completely agree. You have to remember that trump has real limitations and vulnerabilities as a general election candidate. You see big numbers. 40 plus percent of primary voters who are opposed him. Extremely high negatives you see in recent polling. Lets be clear on what the facts are. A lot of conservative christians. Violent tenets that are core to islam. Radical islamists are leading isis who believe in creating a caliphate that would take on western civilization. That is who trump is talking about. How about indonesian is the most Muslim Country in the world. Do you think theyre talking about killing the west . No. Living their lives. So it is sloppiness. And i think somebody who is really willing to take him on is going to do that and do it on a sustained basis. To your point quickly. I think thats where the antitrump debate is going is to the electability argument. We will see them dropping all of this money in these states coming up as they try to take donald trump out and allow other republicans to rise. They are going to go very hard after that electability issue because of comments like that pointing out to trump voters on the bubble not sure about him that these comments will be damaging to the Republican Party in the general election. Thats part of the big problem. Ive spent most of my adult life trying to tell people that what they think the negative stereotypes they have about conservatives are wrong. I think it is the best philosophy to bring about human flourishing, to help them rise. How are you feeling about trump . He reinforcing the stereotypes that republicans are racist. No, thats just what they say about us. The danger that he reinforces kind of proves him right. Two primarily muslim countries. That was in many ways the trump model of go in there, crack down, and beat them to hell. Now we have isis. So if youre going to start arguing on the merit, thats where he gets weaker and shallower is on the idea how do you do what he is proposing . I have to tell you something that wassed last night. Marco rubio touched on it. I would be surprised if he doesnt develop it more. He talked about military men and women who are muslim. They do ask you why do you hate us. We say why do they hate us. I have been in the country where the wars are going on. They look at you and say why do you hate us . Why . The republican primary voters care, or do they like donald trump . Which game are you playing . Right now or are you playing for the long game . These guys were really good. Dont you agree . Oh, i agree. Coming up, we will talk on new day to florida senator marco rubio. He had a very, very important night. Stick for that the next hour. And on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders seriously campaign ahead of next super tuesday. Both of them hoping to shore up support in the key Battle Ground states. Jeff zeleny is live with more. The subject of the democratic race shifts from florida into the midwest. Thats where the key three states are they will be campaigning for, in ohio, illinois, missouri. But Bernie Sanderss crowd yesterday told the story. 9,000 people in tampa, some 5,000 people in orlando. 5,000 people in gainesville as well. Clearly so Many Democrats wanting to see this race go on and wanting to see him succeed. We caught up with Hillary Clinton to ask about this long race. Im just going to keep going until i hope to have the number of delegates to secure the nomination. But it is up to everyone to decide how long they stay in and if we go to the end, we go to the end, just as i did in 08. Thats key there. Just like i did in 08. Thats why you will not hear Hillary Clinton calling for Bernie Sanders to get out of the race. He is going to be campaigning here in chicago later today. Shell be attending the funeral today for nancy reagan. But now the focus of this race is going to be on the industrial midwest. Here in illinois as well ohio, missouri. Those are the places bernie s d sanders believes he can win. That will determine how long this contest goes on. Chris. No one knows better than you, that race is far from over. So the big theme last night was issues not insults. That seemed to be what it was about. Cnn Republican Debate gave a lot of Straight Talk and revealed a lot of stark differences between the candidates. We have a top notch town that will tell you everything you need to know. Stay with us. Prepare for challenges specific to your business by working with trusted advisors who help turn obstacles into opportunities. Experience the power of being understood. Rsm. 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Donald trump represents a change in direction for the blue collar or nationalism. Free trade and opposed to entitlement programs for the elderly. In addition, you have this very harsh language on islam last night. You have a proposal to deport 12 million people. I mean, if he is the nominee, he is a significant redefinition of the party and one in which i think a lot of republicans are going to question where they fit into. Maeve, lets look at those moments. An issue so important in florida is Social Security. Lets see how marco rubio and donald trump contrast it. Watch this. I will do everything i can to leave Social Security the way it is. To get rid of deficit, waste, fraud, and abuse. Which is rampant in this country. Totally rampant. The bottom line is we cant just continue to tip toe and throw out things like im rid of fraud and abuse. Someone my age would retire at 68. We would continue to allow it to increase for future generations until it hits 70. And so my children would retire at 70. Okay. So, maeve, on this topic and others, did marco rubio do enough last night in what he had to do to win florida . That is going to be such a tough climb for him. He clearly was the marco rubio that everyone wanted to see last night. Talking about the future. Talking in specifics on Social Security, giving much more substantive policy prescriptions than donald trump has. But that will be to his peril here in florida where you have a Huge Population of seniors. The highest number of seniors in the country. The rapid answer that donald trump gave about waste, fraud, and abuse, but giving up no idea what he would do other than to not touch Social Security. He may end up being rewarded for that here in florida. . You have more seniors, 3 million, as you said, in florida. You also have a higher Participation Rate than dow seniors in general. That to look at this in a very specific way. Lets look at the most recent one. I think they crunched the latest six polls. We do this, as you had, everyone claimed this particular poll. This is the average of all of them. This is the truest picture. David gregory, this does not show us those who have voted already. 1. 5 million floridians. Most of them are for us. Came in early. Rubio was surging. How big a deal could that be . Look, if theres anyplace rubio can show grassroots strength that predates the grassroots it will be his home state of florida. Marco rubio did acquit himself well on substance, on being forward looking, drawing contrast with trump in a way that was not a school yard taunt. He held himself well. But he has been quite inconsistent on a debate stage and in the campaign. Speaking to his overall electability. And trump, for all we can break him down on issues, he understood the moment, which is to say that he wants to be subtler, less cutting. He wants to speak less about himself and say there are millions of people behind me. This different view of what the party should be to rally behind me and focus a general election. He understood if he has a big night on tuesday i think trump was about reassurance, not persuasion. He did not seem like he had to peel away voters from the other candidate. He looked like someone who felt that he is on the path towards the nomination. He wants to reassure republicans, its okay. Im not crazy. You can hand it over to me.