Donald Trump used a northwest Arkansas rally three days in advance of the Arkansas primary to throw verbal hand grenades at Republican presidential adversary Marco Rubio. In February alone, Trump-focused covers featured headlines such as “DEAD CLOWN WALKING” after Trump lost to Texas Sen. Reporters were visibly stunned when he walked into the room. “So here’s the one tweet he put out, he put out a picture of me having make-up put on me at the debate which is wonderful to me that a guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on make-up”.
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“Rubio stole from the Republican Party”, Trump said of Rubio, with whom he has recently engaged in a public war of words. And it underscored the extent to which Trump has managed to dominate the news cycle and starve rivals of momentum just as they appear to be on the rise.
Rubio and Cruz are fighting on multiple fronts – both need to win their respective home states in upcoming primaries and both are trying to maintain enough steam to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Christie’s move overshadowed them all.
An aide to Baker said the governor wasn’t told ahead of time about Christie’s decision.
#NeverTrump because Trump is clearly a con-artist.
Christie was already on a plane heading to Texas as the debate was airing, according to the former official, who was not authorized to speak publically on Christie’s behalf and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“Chris Christie is a great man with a wonderful family”, Trump said. “It’s a big signal from a major leader in the Republican party”.
Gov. Paul LePage announced his endorsement Friday while speaking on “The Howie Carr Show”, a conservative radio talk show based in Boston.
In his Saturday comments, Rubio went after Trump in the most personal terms. Donald Trump likes to sue people.
But on Thursday night in Houston and Friday in Dallas, the freshman Florida senator repeatedly hit Trump for hiring Polish workers who immigrated illegally and his business failures, such as Trump University and his casinos’ bankruptcies.
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The back-patting was a departure from some of the pair’s more heated rhetoric.
