Rubio has slammed Cruz for wanting to cut military spending.
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‘I don’t like doing it, I don’t like saying bad things about him, ‘ Trump told Bill O’Reilly in an interview that will be airing tonight.
Bush, who has lagged in opinion polls, assailed Trump for a lack of depth and seriousness and called him a “chaos candidate” who was adept at one-liners but naive on policy issues.
The other major subplot had Rubio increasing his attacks on Cruz with the two engaged in what to date is their most pointed confrontation face to face. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, disclosed classified information during Tuesday night’s GOP presidential debate.
Back in 2001 when the attack in the World Trade Center brought criticism and hostility towards the Muslim population amongst conservatives, Christie supported the nomination of a Muslim-American lawyer to New Jersey’s Superior Court.
“The candidates with less support will drop out, and republicans will consolidate behind the frontrunner Donald Trump, or behind one of the more conventional candidates like Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, or maybe even OH governor John Kasich”. But Bush needs support from Republican primary voters, and, based on polls going into the debate, it’s not there now.
“The only place I’ve heard those numbers discussed are in classified settings, so I think Marco was on solid ground”, he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room. ‘He struck first, I mean, you know, it was all staged stuff’.
Bush’s offensive against Trump may not pay dividends: Only 9 percent said Bush won the debate, while 30 percent – a plurality – said they thought he performed the worst.
“He’s going to have a hard time because he’s not told the truth about his position in the past on legalization”, Rubio (Fla.) told reporters after a town hall here.
“You know, I don’t care if a guy like Jeb Bush never endorses me”, Trump said.
“He said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign”, said the billionaire businessman. Around 54 percent of unauthorized Latino immigrants in 2013 said they identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party, compared to 19 percent who said the same of the Republican Party.
Jim Risch, a Idaho senator on the Foreign Relations committee who has endorsed Rubio, said he believed those type of numbers were classified.
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“Now that he’s been in the lead in the polls for so many months, I think people would say he has a credible chance”, said WMU political science professor Peter Wielhouwer. Rubio, when asked if he still supported a path to citizenship, uttered more than 400 words without answering the question.
