"I've got one goal: Fix this permanently," Graham told a voter who asked for his stance on the issue.
"Our beloved Ronald Reagan gave 3 million people amnesty and they did not secure the border, they did not increase legal immigration or change how you control who gets a job," he said. "If you don't do those three things, you will have wave after wave after wave, but if you do these things right that will be the end of illegal immigration."
“I know how to make executive decisions,” she said. “And those are tough choices in tough times with high stakes, lots of pressure, incomplete information, a lot of ambiguity from which you’re willing to be held accountable. And I think we need someone who can win the office, but I also think we need someone who can do the job.”
“I like Hillary Clinton. I respect Secretary Clinton. I am not here to talk about Secretary Clinton," O’Malley said when asked after his speech about the foundation accepting large donations from foreign countries in the two years since Clinton left her post as secretary of state.
On a related note, word has emerged from out similarly besieged brothers in Iowa that the Freedom of Speech is really have quite the impact on local races:
In August, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and Iowa Republican state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann drove for an hour together between political events in Davenport and Iowa City, jawing about property rights and eminent domain.
In October, Paul headlined a Kaufmann campaign fundraiser, where nearly 400 attendees chowed on barbecued pork, beans and cheesy potatoes in Kaufmann's eastern Iowa hometown of Wilton, population 2,800.
And that same month, Paul's political action committee sent Kaufmann's campaign a $1,000 check.
Paul's courting of a 29-year-old chairman of the Iowa House's government oversight committee who has no national stature is hardly accidental: Should the Kentucky Republican run for president, he'll desperately need support from local leaders like Kaufmann.
Kaufman, however, hasn't committed to Paul, who was again visiting Iowa last weekend, or any other potential candidate.
"I'm not endorsing anyone yet," Kaufmann told The Center for Public Integrity.
Paul's charm offensive isn't unique: During 2013 and 2014, potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates gave an outsized share of contributions from their PACs to politicians and political groups from Iowa and New Hampshire, the two states that host the nation's first presidential nominating contests.
They use their PACs to lay the groundwork for possible campaigns and cultivate relationships on the ground with state officials and party activists long before they officially launch presidential bids.
That means people like Paul, a senator elected to represent Kentucky voters, are spending huge amounts of attention on Iowa, New Hampshire and other states far from their constituents.
During the past two years, six high-profile Republicans collectively spread $340,000 through their PACs — about 25 percent of their overall contributions — to nearly 100 beneficiaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of federal filings.