Were Bush and Rubio fighting over Common Core in Thursday’s debate?

Published August 7, 2015 5:18pm ET



Fight,” “spar,” “differ” and even “lock horns” are words being used in headlines to describe Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio’s Common Core discussion Thursday at the Republican presidential primary debate. When one looks back at the conversation, however, it’s not clear that the two were disagreeing, much less fighting.

Here’s how the Common Core discussion happened, so you can decide for yourself if it was a fight.

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