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Businessman Donald Trump, the front-runner in polling, used part of his speech in Iowa to defend himself against critics who said he should have corrected a man at a rally on Friday when he asserted, incorrectly, that President Barack Obama was a Muslim and not an American.
Cruz says that if conservatives unite, the GOP primary will be over and that the Washington establishment wants to divide conservatives. But I will assume that someone that doesn’t agree with me isn’t a bad person.
Current frontrunner Donald Trump will not attend. “Leadership isn’t defined by position, or title, or how big your office is, your airplane, your helicopter, your ego”, she told Michigan Republicans.
Other candidates at the Michigan conference include Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Rand Paul.
Fresh off the debate stage in California, six Republican presidential candidates will travel to an unlikely place this weekend: an island in the middle of two Great Lakes where horse carriages and bicycles are the only forms of transportation.
His campaign spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in an email that inclement weather in Chicago grounded Walker’s flight.
The wrinkle comes as Walker has scaled back his initially ambitious campaign for president to focus on neighboring Iowa, scrambling to reassure jittery donors and supporters after a quiet performance in the second Republican debate on Wednesday.
“I feel really encouraged, because what we know is that when people get to know me, and they hear who I am and what I believe and what I’ll do, they tend to support me”, Fiorina told reporters.
Cruz spoke to a lunchtime audience in Michigan before joining the Iowa group as its final speaker. Mr Bush will deliver the keynote address this evening.
Jeb Bush hopes to do well in the Republican primaries in both Georgia and South Carolina, so he’s not about to offend football fans in either state.
“We have come to a pivotal point in our nation’s history where the potential of too many Americans is being crushed by the weight, power, cost and ineptitude of federal government and a professional political class who refuses to do anything about it”, she said. “I think we can be boldly for what we’re for and get new voters”, Paul said.
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Activists chanting “We want more debates!” drowned out DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s speech several times at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s convention in Manchester on Saturday morning.
