Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday released his first television commercial in the 2016 race for the White House with a 30-second spot highlighting his stance on Muslims, immigration and terrorism.
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The ad closes with Trump’s proposal to build a wall, funded by the Mexican government, along the US southern border. The voice is part action movie trailer, part South Park, but it’s still just normal enough to expose one thing in particular: Trump’s campaign promises are nakedly absurd when anyone besides Trump says them.
“He’ll cut the head off ISIS and take their oil”.
His call for a total, if temporary, ban on Muslims entering the country has been roundly condemned across the world and features in a video made by Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia to encourage Western Muslims to wage jihad.
Trump’s main rival in the crucial first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, Ted Cruz, is hosting a whopping five events in Iowa Monday during his bus tour – running until 11:45 p.m. “It’s got to stop”.
The New Yorker took aim not at Trump, but the media, calling on TV news outlets to hold Trump more accountable for his statements.
“We have tremendous crowds, incredible support from all over the country…We have spent the least amount of money and have the best results and this is the kind of thinking the country needs”, he said.
“Ultimately”, Rubio said, Trump is “not the cause of radical jihadists”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not one to back down readily from controversial statements, and the list of those he dislikes continues to grow.
Airwaves in the early states already are saturated, with campaigns and super PACs in both parties gobbling up advertising time.
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Rubio told reporters Obama “failed as president because his ideas don’t work” instead of his lack of experience.
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Trump added, “You can say the same words, ‘Make America Great Again, ‘ and various themes around it, but it’s doesn’t sound the same as it is when I’m up there on stage in front of 15,000 people going wild”.
