While the statement is most likely a bad joke cleverly planned to maximize media response, giving the self-funding billionaire massive amounts of free press, Trump is the only candidate who regularly makes statements that make many people shake their heads in disbelief. “We got to get things done, folks, OK?” “Haven’t had that experience with Trump yet”, the aide said, confessing that he’d vote for Cruz if they were his only two choices.
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“Instead of working to grow the Republican Party, Trump and Cruz have gone out of their way to alienate moderates, independents, and Hispanics, all of whom are critical to winning in November”.
Some party stalwarts however have welcomed Trump.
Beck also said that while he could understand the anger galvanizing primary voters in 2016, Trump’s remark was a concerning sentiment and the role of the Constitution is to “temper” the mood of the nation. “I believe I have found him”.
Trump’s comments come as the debate about gun violence in America has taken center stage in American political discourse amid several highly publicized mass shootings.
In his speech, which ripped into Donald Trump as much as it gushed about Cruz, Beck said Trump had to “apologize” to the conservative movement for being arrogant and self-centered and for clashing with the Tea Party.
“I would never kill them”.
It was the problem at the border that catapulted Trump to frontrunner status last summer, and his hardline stance toward Muslim and Hispanic immigrants has allowed him to grab and hog the Republican Party’s right flank. They say there’s still plenty of time for a more mainstream candidate to mount a serious challenge. Florida Senator Marco Rubio follows with 14 percent. “They’re just telling people their opinion about Ted Cruz”.
“Mr. Trump, at the time, was sending tweets publicly supporting amnesty”, Cruz said, adding the New Yorker to his usual bash of Rubio. According to numerous GOP strategists with establishment connections who spoke on condition of anonymity, Trump’s upside is that he’s a businessman who they believe may be more pragmatic than ideological when push comes to shove, while Cruz’s upside is that he’s a longtime devotee to conservative causes (unlike Trump, who has famously voiced liberal views in the past) and more predictable. “If you folks hand Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, the Republican party of Iowa and this Republican chair will be behind him 1,000 percent”, Kaufmann said, although he is not endorsing anyone in the race.
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“He showed his toughness and we need somebody tough”, he said. He often talks about how he’s been in politics all his life and has been seen as the “fair-haired boy” showering contributions on both Republicans and Democrats.
