In the historic Grand Hotel on Michigan’s Mackinac Island, Fiorina joined former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Texas Sen.
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“I really think Carly has got the buzz, I really do”, Miller told CNN.
While Walker was juggling his schedule, five other Republican candidates took the opportunity to speak with Michigan’s leading Republican Party leaders and elected officials gathered on picturesque Mackinaw Island, which sits between the state’s two peninsulas.
Michigan offers the most delegates of the three primary contests on March 8 and follows closely early nominating races in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. “It’s not just tearing up agreement because it gets you a round of applause”, said Kasich, referencing recent comments by fellow GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz has made on the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina came in second in the straw poll, and also attracted a crowd wherever she went. He recalls an incident during the 2008 campaign when Republican nominee John McCain took the microphone away from a woman who said she didn’t trust Obama because he was an “Arab”.
Bush spoke briefly and posed for hundreds of selfies on the University of Georgia campus before the Bulldogs hosted a Southeastern Conference game against the University of South Carolina.
“If we are serious about winning, we need to be on their side and assume that they want to achieve earned success, because they do”, Bush said, referring to racial and ethnic minorities who typically vote Democratic and middle class voters feeling left behind in a strong economy.
Saturday’s events were supposed to begin with a breakfast featuring Scott Walker, but he did not attend the conference due to inclement weather.
Cruz spoke to a lunchtime audience in Michigan before joining the Iowa group as its final speaker.
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The Republican governor’s new PAC is his first public attempt to raise the profile of his agenda since he decided in May not to join the crowded GOP field for president. “What Washington wants, what the Washington establishment wants, is to divide us”.
