The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security, said Katon Dawson, the former chairman of the SC GOP.
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“When has Bush or Trump led an global coalition against ISIS?” There are other things Latinos hate – when white folks butcher Spanish, when restaurants ruin Mexican food, when people assume we all got here last week in the trunk of a vehicle, when talk shows discuss Latinos without letting Latinos in on the discussion, and when the political parties alternate among ignoring us, picking on us and setting our agenda.
The day before the former Florida governor was on “Good Morning America”, Trump took a poke at Bush for speaking Spanish to Hispanic audiences.
Jeb Bush and other Republican presidential candidates on Monday said more USA troops were needed to counter Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq but stopped short of calling for the deployment of significant numbers of combat personnel.
Trump has repeatedly called Bush “low energy” and said his campaign is a “total disaster”.
“This reframes the candidate choice in the eyes of many voters”, said Kevin Madden, a senior adviser and spokesman for Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.
He delivers his jabs at campaign rallies, in comments to the news media and on Twitter.
The billionaire developer’s vitriolic put-downs are not just over policy. They often are personal, targeted at qualities such as how the other person looks. Republican candidate Rand Paul, whose comparative lack of a capacity for flamboyant rhetoric has hurt his polling in recent debates, pointed out Trump’s general lack of policy understanding by noting that China is not part of the deal and in fact, is outright opposed to it: “you know, we might want to point out China is not part of this deal….” Thanks to Jamie Reysen of amny.com for gathering much of this material and putting it on line. As he spoke, Trump stepped away from the lectern and slid his belt buckle back and forth.
“Everybody else keeps talking about what should’ve been done and what could’ve been done [about ISIS], instead of their opinion of what they would do now”, Trump supporter Mildred Borden, 58, of Pennsylvania told Reuters Tuesday.
“If you’re a child molester, there’s no cure”. Trump said of the former Hewlett-Packard CEO in a Rolling Stone profile. “Would anyone vote for that?”
Trump vowed Monday that he would fiercely punish the extremist group if elected president in 2016.
Hillary Clinton, as discussed in yesterday’s column, won Saturday’s debate but was unable to distinguish herself from Bernie Sanders by pointing to her experience as Secretary of State.
Let’s move to the second tier of Republican candidates. He even gave out the number for Graham’s personal cellphone.
“The severity of the attacks in Paris crystallize in people’s minds the importance of having somebody in the commander-in-chief spot who has made the kinds of decisions, gone through the kind of decision-making process, that an experienced leader has”, Fred Malek, who has advised many Republican presidents, told Politico. Trump asked on Twitter. A total of 52 percent of Democrats chose Clinton, and 33 percent of Republicans chose Trump, with GOP Sen.
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Trump’s insults are not confined to politicians. He sneered at debate moderators Megyn Kelly and John Harwood.
