DHAKA: US Republicans have traded blows in a heated presidential debate in Colorado that featured several angry exchanges.

Frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, with no political experience, were under attack from the start, reports the BBC.

Ohio Governor John Kasich condemned their “fantasy tax plans” and added: “We can’t elect someone who doesn’t know how to do the job.”

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who has edged past Trump in national polls, had a quiet night in Boulder.

Carson’s tax plan, which is based on biblical tithes, was decried as “fantasy” by Kasich, who also condemned Trump’s plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and build a wall on the Mexico border.

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