What You Missed in the Debate
• After Mr. Cruz said he would not implement waterboarding “in any sort of widespread use,” Mr. Trump made clear he would not hesitate to turn to the practice often — and then some. “I would bring back waterboarding, and I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding,” Mr. Trump said.
.. “He continues to put out this fiction that there’s widespread systematic discrimination against Muslim-Americans,” Mr. Rubio said.
.. Mr. Cruz boasted in his closing statement that he won Iowa despite opposing an ethanol mandate that his peers defended, casting himself as the candidate best positioned to take on Washington. Mr. Trump could not resist a dig, alluding to the Texas senator’s tactics in Iowa. “That’s because he got Ben Carson’s votes, by the way,” Mr. Trump said.