In second Republican debate, candidates talk crime, education, immigration, drugs - JNS.org

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "We have to make sure we have the backs of law enforcement, and we have to make sure that we're a country of law and order.
47% : "He noted that Washington, by trading $6 billion to Tehran for the release of five U.S. hostages, "just now set a price on anyone's head who's a tourist from America, who's a student from America for kidnapping.
45% : "They're also helping Iran get closer to a nuclear weapon, which pushes all of the Middle East closer to China and Russia.
45% : ""We have to start prosecuting according to the law," she said.
43% : "We have to start taking care of law enforcement, but it's not just taking care of them with words.
42% : Iranian threatSome three-quarters of the way into the debate, Varney said that U.S. President Joe Biden's first two years in office "have brought China, Russia and Iran closer together."
39% : "Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, was asked about police morale, which is at a record low, and the shortage of law-enforcement officers.
30% : The entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who at 38 was the youngest on the stage, mentioned religion when discussing the movement of illegal drugs across "the Swiss cheese of a Southern border.
29% : Instead, the seven candidates focused largely on domestic issues, including urban crime, illegal drugs, immigration and the Southern border.
29% : "We get attacked every day in North Dakota, every state, every school district, our tribes all being attacked every day by either China, Russia, Iran or North Korea," he added.

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