Trump told an enthusiastic audience during a campaign rally at a Christian school in Sioux Center, Iowa. But his presence at the Trump campaign event nonetheless demonstrated the increasingly warm relationship between Trump and the Republican political establishment, which was initially stunned and disheartened by the flamboyant billionaire’s enormous lead over other more establishment-friendly candidates.
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Trump’s comments Saturday came nine days before Iowans are set to head to the caucuses to vote in the first contest of the primary cycle.
US Republican front-runner Donald Trump expressed confidence on Saturday that he could push back attempts by his rivals to knock him off his top perch, saying he could stand in New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump bragged about his supporters, to his supporters yesterday during a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa.
“I can say I have no intention of shooting anybody in this campaign”.
“And I wouldn’t even complain because he was born in Canada”, Trump said.
“I may have spoken too soon in predicting in December that the Democrats would face Cruz in November”, Brock said in an email to CNN.
Jill Kozeny, a spokeswoman for Grassley, told the Guardian in a statement that the senator “has been attending events for and with Republican presidential candidates (all, I believe) in Iowa since last summer, whenever he’s been invited and it can be scheduled”.
Having angered veterans with his quip at Mr McCain’s expense, Mr Trump caused outrage when he mocked a disabled newspaper reporter, Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition.
He added that he would keep his criticism focused on issues: “I don’t intend to go into the gutter”.
But it’s not enough to be a charismatic and successful businessman, she said.
On the Democratic side, the Register picked Hillary Clinton, the Register picked Hillary in Y 2008 over the freshman Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama.
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More than 1,000 people filled a drafty, chilly gym at Faith Bible College in Ankeny.
