Amid Trumpmania, a genuine policy dispute has broken out in the middle of the GOP presidential primary. On one side are defense hawks including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) former Florida governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and on the other is the “frugal” hawk Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
In a recent interview with Hugh Hewitt, Kasich, who was a fierce budget-cutter and made a name for himself in Congress, among other things, inblocking the B-2 bomber, said, “The sequester doesn’t matter to me.” This prompted Graham to denounce Kasich as unprepared to be commander in chief. “These are mandatory, across-the-board cuts to defense that will accumulate to the point that, by 2021, we will be spending half of what we’d normally spend on the Defense Department,” Graham said.
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