Ted Cruz also joined Rubio in going after Trump.
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Rubio was the principal aggressor, spitting out a steady stream of criticism on everything from Trump’s position on immigration to his privileged background, his speaking style and more.
We’re on the verge of having someone take over the conservative movement and the Republican Party who’s a con artist….
Republicans acknowledged after the 2012 election that they would have to attract minority and female voters if they were to recapture the White House.
Jacked up from a successful showing at Thursday night’s GOP debate, Marco Rubio took to network morning shows to maintain his Trump-bashing Marco-mentum.
Now, Rubio has taken that attack line and used it on Donald Trump. Mr. Trump tried hard to defend his reputation as a successful businessman, because his entire campaign is built on that claim, but huge applauds for Mr Rubio from the audience drowned his voice.
Along with Ted Cruz, the three leading presidential candidates constantly talked over each other in a debate filled with fiery accusations and name-calling. The showdown came just days before the Super Tuesday 11-state round of mega-voting that could all but lock up the nomination.
Although Rubio was the victor in last night’s debate, there may not be enough time for him to gather momentum to catch up with Trump who leads by wide double-digit margins in the polls nationally. “Now he’s repeating himself”, Rubio went on, coyly referencing a previous debate in which Rubio badly hurt himself by repeating the same answer several times. Trump just kept returning to the same point – the lines around the states. “Down about 22 points in Florida”, Trump said. The latest delegate count: Trump 82, Cruz 17, Rubio 16, John Kasich 6 and Ben Carson 4.
“I’m not going to pay for that f***ing wall”.
Rubio isn’t the only one mocking Trump’s tweets – Merriam Webster tweeted at Trump correcting his word usage Friday morning. Then, then he asked for a full-length mirror, I don’t know why because the podium goes up to here (gestures to stomach).
Rubio accused Trump of shifting his position on deportation and staffing his hotels and other businesses with foreign workers instead of Americans.
“If he hadn’t inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now?”
“If he builds the wall the way he built Trump Towers, he’ll be using illegal immigrant labour to do it”, Mr Rubio interjected.
Making light of Cruz’s repeated attempts to diminish him, Trump said: “Keep fighting, keep swinging, man, swing for the fences”.
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But Trump insisted that he would be able to achieve his goal as people would go back on their own, which he described as self-deportation. More than a dozen states and hundreds of delegates will be in play on Super Tuesday.
