Some Republicans may hope to make inroads with Jewish voters. That's a possibility, but Jewish voters remain strongly Democratic-leaning. Back in 2021, the Pew Research Center found that 71% of Jewish voters identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party, while 26% associated with the Republican Party. Now, there are some Jewish groups who do identify more with the GOP, particularly Orthodox Jews, three-fourths of whom identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning in the Pew survey. But even if Jewish voters were to shift toward the GOP, they are likely to remain predominantly Democratic in their leanings.

-Analysis by Geoffrey Skelley of 538

Christie told a story about being appointed U.S. attorney in New Jersey on Sept. 10, 2011, and how one of his first big assignments was working to stop potential hate crimes on Jewish and Muslim residents.

“We stopped any hate crimes that were going on, either against Jewish Americans in New Jersey or Muslim Americans in New Jersey, Christie said.

The Asbury Park Press ran the numbers in 2016. Hate crimes did, in fact, drop.

Total reported hate crimes in 2010 numbered 775, the newspaper reported. The total number of hate crimes then dropped each year through 2015 -- from 606, to 553, 459, 373 and, finally, 367 in 2015.

Religiously motivated hate crimes also trended downward until 2015. That year they increased nearly 10% in New Jersey.

-Analysis by Aaron Sharockman of PolitiFact

Haley said the country needs to "soul search" when asked what she would say to Americans who are afraid in this current environment, as the candidates discussed concerns over antisemitism and Islamophobia amid the Israel-Hamas war.

She said she is angered that Jewish students are feeling afraid on college campuses.

She said Americans should not be celebrating terrorists, genocide or "violence toward anybody."

"We need to go back and soul search in our country and remember what we are about. And we are about taking care of people, not going and making them live in fear," she said.

-ABC News' Meredith Deliso

Some candidates were asked how far they'd go in responding to Iran given what the Pentagon has called recent attacks by Iranian-backed proxy groups on U.S. military bases in Syria and Iraq.

Haley said the U.S. needs to take out the infrastructure used to launch those attacks, arguing Iran responds to "strength."

"You punch them once, you punch them hard, and they will back off," she said.

DeSantis warned of reprisals against Iran if American service members are harmed.

"I would say you: You harm a hair on the head of an American service member and you are going to have hell to pay," he said.

-ABC News' Alexandra Hutzler

“Three out of four Americans agree with a 15-week limit,” Scott said.

Survey data varies on this question. A June 2023 poll sponsored by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, an anti-abortion group, and conducted by the Tarrance Group, found that 77% of respondents said abortions should be prohibited at conception, after six weeks or after 15 weeks.

But this poll was sponsored by a group with a position on the issue, and both questions told respondents that fetuses can feel pain at 15 weeks -- an assertion that is not the universal consensus among medical experts.

Independent polls found a range of results on the question of an abortion ban after 15 weeks. A July 2022 survey from Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies and the Harris Poll found that 23% of respondents said their state should ban abortion after 15 weeks, 12% said it should be banned at six weeks and 37% said it should be allowed only in cases of rape and incest. Collectively, that’s 72% who supported a ban at 15 weeks or less.

In two subsequent polls, the support for abortion at 15 weeks or less was not as strong. A September 2022 Economist/YouGov poll found that 39% of respondents supported a ban on abortions after 15 weeks, and 46% opposed it. And a June 2023 Associated Press-NORC poll found that for abortion up to 15 weeks, 51% of respondents said they would allow it, while 45% said they would ban it.

-Analysis by Aaron Sharockman of PolitiFact