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Republican Candidates Debate in Greenville, South Carolina

John Dickerson, Kimberly Strassel, Major Garrett

 John Dickerson from CBS News is the moderator of the debate along with panelists Major
Garrett from CBS News and Kimberly Strassel from The Wall Street Journal.
 John Dickerson welcomes the candidates and invites them to talk about the Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
 John Dickerson asks the candidates about the necessity to fill the vacancy left after the
death of Justice Scalia.
 John Dickerson is wondering if the Constitution tells who has the power to appoint
Supreme Court justices. The question is addressed to Senator Rubio – a specialist in law.
 John Dickerson observes that ”Republican presidents have picked justices that didn't turn
out to be real conservatives” and asks Governor Bush if he would have a litmus test for a
nominee.
 Dickerson wants to make clear the difference between appointing and confirming and
asks Senator Cruz about this.
 The next topic on which Dickerson addresses questions is national security and he
speaks with Donald Trump first. He is wondering what three questions he would ask
Trump his national security experts about the world on his first day in the Situation
Room.
 Dickerson then moves to Dr. Carson and emphasizes on Carson's affirmation that he had
more 2 a.m. calls than any others.
 Dickerson initiates a debate on the danger of a conflict with Russia. As Governor Kasich
said he wanted to punch Russians in the nose, Dickerson is wondering how he would do
that. Dickerson points out that Governor Bush said defeating ISIS requires defeating
Assad who is supported by Russia and Donald Trump said he could get very well with
Vladimir Putin.
 Dickerson asks Senator Cruz for more details why he considers the first Gulf War ”as
being a kind of model” for his plans to go after ISIS.
 Dickerson is wondering why Trump was surprised that Nancy Pelosi hadn't tried to
impeach George W. Bush on the way he had conducted the Iraq war.
 Dickerson asks Dr. Carson why civilian causalities would be acceptable in the fight
against ISIS.
 They then discuss on economics and Kimberley Strassel asks Trump how he could
accomplish his ideas of economic growth estimated by the Committee for a Responsible
Federal Budget without big deficits.
 Major Garrett talks with Senator Cruz about the taxes he had proposed.
 Strassel points out that liberals like to use the tax code to insert social policy and asks
Senator Rubio ”why should conservatives who want to tax adopt the other side's
approach?”
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 Strassel asks Kasich about federal welfare programs and Garrett asks Bush about the
proposed tax on hedge fund managers.
 Dickerson wants to find the point of view on Medicare of Dr. Carson.
 The next topic discussed is immigration.
 Strassel asks Senator Cruz would deport people who are staying illegally in the U.S. if he
had a list of them and their addresses.
 Garrett talks with Bush about immigration starting from Bush's quote that illegal
immigrants ”broke the law, but it's not a felony” and then asks why Dr. Carson considers
the idea of deporting 11 million undocumented workers in U.S. is nuts.
 Strassel wants to find Dr. Carson's opinions on financial crisis starting from Morgan
Stanley's fine for involvement in the mortgage crisis.
 Dickerson is wondering if Cruz had been a warrior for the poor in his campaign.
 Dickerson asks Trump if he would try to stop Ford from moving a factory to Mexico or
he would threaten them with a 35 percent tax or tariff on every car sold.
 Dickerson points out that a president has to be firm, but also flexible and asks Trump if
his change of opinion makes him like Ronald Reagan.
 After a debate with all candidates on Bush's flexibility and Rubio's immigration reform
Dickerson observes that Carson was the first to talk about political correctness. So, he
invites Carson to tell the voters something they need to hear but that might be politically
incorrect,
 Dickerson then wants to talk with and about the ”Democrat' favorite Republican” –
Kasich.
 Before the final speech of the candidates Dickerson creates a debate between Bush and
Trump on the change that occurred in the Republican Party.

Persons

 John Dickerson – American journalist and a reporter for CBS News

 Kimberly Strassel – conservative American columnist and author who is member of the
Wall Street Journal editorial board
 Major Garrett - American journalist who is chief Washington correspondent for CBS
News
 Jeb Bush – 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007; Republican party
 George W. Bush – 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009; Republican
Party
 Ben Carson – American politician, author and former neurosurgeon serving as the 17th
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Republican Party
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 Ted Cruz – American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator
for Texas since 2013; Republican Party
 John Kasich – American politician, author, and television news host who served as the
69th Governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019; Republican Party
 Marco Rubio – American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from
Florida; Republican Party
 Donald Trump – 45th and current president of the United States; Republican Party; former
businessman and television personality
 Ronald Reagan – 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989; Republican
Party; 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975
 Antonin Scalia – American lawyer, jurist, government official, and academic who served
as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his
death in 2016
 Nancy Pelosi – American Democratic Party politician serving as Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives since January 2019
 Vladimir Putin – President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from
2000 until 2012
 Bashar al-Assad – President of Syria since July 2000

Glossary

 Appointment and Confirmation – The appointment and confirmation of Justices to

the Supreme Court of the United States involves several steps set forth by the United
States Constitution, which have been further refined and developed by decades of
tradition. Candidates are nominated by the President of the United States and must face a
series of hearings in which both the nominee and other witnesses make statements and
answer questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which can vote to send the
nomination to the full United States Senate. Confirmation by the Senate allows the
President to formally appoint the candidate to the court. The Constitution does not set any
qualifications for service as a Justice, thus the President may nominate any individual to
serve on the Court.
 CBS News – t he news division of American television and radio service CBS
 civilian causalities – under the law of war, it is referred to civilians who perished or
suffered wounds as a result of wartime acts
 Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget – an independent, non-profit, bipartisan
public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. that addresses federal budget and
fiscal issues
 conservative – a supporter or member of the Conservative Party
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 Constitution – an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that

constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity, and commonly
determine how that entity is to be governed
 columnist – a journalist contributing regularly to a newspaper or magazine
 deficit – an amount by which a resource, especially money, falls short of what is required
 deportation – the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country
 economics – the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and
transfer of wealth
 economic growth – he increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and
services produced by an economy over time
 editorial board – a group of experts, usually at a publication, who dictate the tone and
direction the publication's editorial policy will take
 financial crisis – any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets
suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value
 fine – money that a court of law or other authority decides has to be paid as punishment
for a crime or other offence
 federal welfare programs – Welfare refers to a range of government programs which
provide financial or other aid to individuals or groups who cannot support themselves.
Welfare programs are typically funded by taxpayers and allow people to cope with
financial stress during rough periods of their lives.
 felony – a crime regarded in the US and many other judicial systems as more serious than
a misdemeanour
 immigration – the international movement of people to a destination country of which
they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside
there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take
up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker
 ISIS – a terrorist militant group and a former unrecognised proto-state that follows
a fundamentalist, Salafi jihadist doctrine of Sunni Islam
 junior United States Senator – senator in each U.S. state with the shorter time in office
 litmus test – question asked of a potential candidate for high office, the answer to which
would determine whether the nominating official would proceed with the appointment or
nomination
 liberals - generally support limited government, individual rights (including civil
rights and human rights), capitalism (free markets), democracy, secularism, gender
equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the
press and freedom of religion
 Medicare – national health insurance program in the United States, begun in 1966 under
the Social Security Administration (SSA) and now administered by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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 national security – security and defense of a nation state, including its citizens, economy,
and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government
 political correctness – the avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to
exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or
discriminated against
 Republican party – one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is
its historic rival, the Democratic Party; founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–
Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of slavery into certain U.S.
territories
 senior United States Senator – senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office
 Situation Room – officially known as the John F. Kennedy Conference Room, is
a conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West
Wing of the White House
 social policy – policy usually within a governmental or political setting, such as
the welfare state and study of social services
 Supreme Court – The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest
court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate (and
largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all federal and state court cases that
involve a point of federal law, and original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases,
including suits between two or more states and those involving ambassadors.
 the mortgage crisis – nationwide financial crisis, occurring between 2007 and 2010, that
contributed to the U.S. recession of December 2007 – June 2009
 tariff – a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
 tax code – a code number representing the tax-free part of an employee's income,
assigned by tax authorities for use by employers in calculating the tax to be deducted
under the PAYE system
 tax – a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers'
income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and
transactions
 tax on hedge fund managers – hedge fund is an investment fund that
pools capital from accredited investors or institutional investors and invests in a variety
of assets, often with complicated portfolio-construction and risk management techniques
 the first Gulf War – 2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991; the Iraqi Army invaded and
occupied Kuwait, which was met with international condemnation and brought
immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the UN Security Council
 the Iraq war – armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United
States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein
 The Wall Street Journal – U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily
newspaper based in New York City