LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The top 10 Republican presidential candidates sparred in the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign season in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday night. The debate gave voters their first glimpse of billionaire Donald Trump sharing the stage with the other front-runners, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Trump got the debate off to a dramatic start when he stated he was unwilling to guarantee his support to another Republican candidate – forgoing an independent run – should he not win the Republican nomination. He was the only candidate to say so, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took the opportunity to attack Trump’s commitment to the Republican Party. “He is already hedging his bet on the Clintons,” Paul said. “If he doesn’t run as a Republican, maybe he supports Clinton, or maybe he runs as an independent.” Trump continued to stir controversy later by declining to backtrack from comments he’s made in the past in which he has called women “fat pigs” or “slobs,” saying he does not have time for complete political correctness. “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,” Trump said. “I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. Trump did yield the spotlight on occasion, however. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul engaged in a heated argument over the mass collection of data on U.S. citizen
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