During CNN's coverage of Wednesday's Republican presidential debate, CNN Political Commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones stated that Republicans "took advantage of some of the disarray in the Democratic Party and stuck up for Jewish kids who are scared to leave their dorm rooms and all of that kind of stuff and came very, very forcefully, saying that Jewish kids shouldn't be scared to leave their dorm rooms in this country." And that "was an important development in the conversation" on the issue.