Second GOP presidential debate: on Families & Children

Doug Burgum: Family and mental health are solution to mass shootings

BURGUM: The liberal left seems to be just completely bent on prosecuting law-abiding citizens that are gun owners. But strict gun laws [aren't] working. What we have to do is get back to the core issues about the family. We have to get back to behavioral health and mental health. We have got to get back to actually enforcing the laws, [instead of] defunding the police. The police have become the bad guys. Every time I see a policeman, the first thing I say is, "Thank you." And so does everybody else in my family and most of the people in our state, because they know we have to respect the people that are out there defending us every single day.

Tim Scott: Protect HeadStart and let parents choose childcare

SCOTT: One of the things I did as a member of the Congress was to make sure that we protected the Head Start programs around the country, giving people the opportunity to pick and choose the place that they send their children. The challenges that we see today under the Biden administration is that the cost for daycare has gone over $15,000 per child.

Q: How do we fix that problem?

SCOTT: We actually cut taxes and give more Americans their money back. When I helped write the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we actually lowered a single mother's taxes by 70%, for dual-income households by 60%. Then we doubled the child tax credit and made it refundable. By doing that, more parents had more resources to make the decisions how to take care of their family.