2016 GOP Debates Test Candidates' Fitness as Commander in Chief
Showing 4 Commander In Chief videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Marco Rubio challenged Donald Trump's readiness to serve as commander in chief, citing Trump's past comparison of foreign leaders to Kim Jong Un and questioning his seriousness on foreign policy; Trump countered that young Americans could become the greatest generation in a century if U.S. leadership stayed strong enough to keep the world stable. In the campaign's final debate before Trump secured the nomination, all four remaining candidates, Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich, were asked whether they would honor their pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee; Trump used the moment to argue that Hillary Clinton, then under FBI investigation, could never be trusted as commander in chief. Both exchanges took place years before Kirk's death and are unrelated to the rest of this pool's more recent content.