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Trump on using waterboarding: I'll do much worse than that

Cooper Allen
USA TODAY
Donald Trump speaks alongside Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz at the GOP debate in New Hampshire on Feb. 6, 2016.

Donald Trump certainly isn't trying to hedge on whether he'd support using waterboarding to combat terrorism.

Quite the contrary.

"I would bring back waterboarding," he said Saturday night at a Republican debate in New Hampshire. "And I would bring back a hell of a lot worse."

Ted Cruz, meanwhile, who's also known for his hawkish language on the campaign trail — he's fond of saying he'd "carpet bomb" the Islamic State — said he didn't think waterboarding was, by definition, torture. But he added that he wouldn't bring it back in any "widespread" fashion.

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