The change of heart likely had a lot to do with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose presidential campaign LePage had backed. “That was part of what made him an attractive candidate for me”. Trump ribbed Rubio’s on his alleged excessive sweating during the debate. He suggested the development was “troubling news” for Rubio’s campaign, which had been courting the tough-talking New Jersey governor since he dropped his own presidential candidacy earlier in the month.
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Gov. Chris Christie chose to endorse Donald Trump Thursday afternoon, hours before the debate in Houston that saw Trump come under harsh attack by Marco Rubio, according to an adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity. “If he says, I’d like you guys to support Donald Trump, I’ll be there for him”, Florio said.
Trump, former host of NBC’s “The Apprentice”, has won contests in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada since finishing second to Cruz in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses on February 1. Polls show that Trump is leading in most of the other states voting that day.
He dabbed his “sweat mustache”, Rubio said. Trump shot back with a torrent of insults. He is a successful person that, like me, isn’t afraid to tell it like it is.
Trump, in a post on Twitter Friday morning, fired back by saying: “Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night”.
Both candidates jabbed at Trump.
Trump mocked Rubio at a rally in nearby Fort Worth.
The decision gave Trump perhaps his biggest endorsement to date — a boost well-timed to take a bigger lead in the race for the GOP nomination.
There was little sign that Trump’s stock was falling at the Fort Worth rally where supporters gathered.
“The people that are behind Trump think he’s real; they’re sick and exhausted of politicians and they see Trump as not a politician”. “I’m sick of lying in Washington”.
Well, I think that they’re clearly the background here, not only for the candidates themselves, but for a strategy that the Republican Party unleashed in the late 1970s – and that was their Southern strategy.
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Once on stage, Trump even appeared off-balance when Rubio questioned whether Trump would have been “selling watches in Manhattan”, had not been his inheritance of a vast fortune. “Trump is the man. That’s all there is to it”.
