Republican leaders anxious over Donald Trump’s dominance say they still have options for preventing the billionaire from winning the Republican nomination – just not many good ones. Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace moderated the two-hour forum.
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Donald Trump’s candidacy has Americans switching party allegiances in lots of ways for lots of reasons. Voters in Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and ME are the next vote, with primaries on Saturday. On Tuesday, Mississippi and MI follow.
Trump, meanwhile, was setting his sights on the general election. “Dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark”.
The stakes there go beyond mere symbolism or personal pride.
Then, in the closing moments, having succeeded in attacking Trump’s political and business record more than in any other previous debate, the remaining candidates agreed they’d fully support Trump if he became the party’s nominee.
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, seen here speaking during a campaign stop at Lansing Community College May 8, 2012 in Lansing, Michigan, denounces GOP front-runner Donald Trump. We know, for example, that Trump pulls a disproportionate share of his support from voters without a college degree, so he tends to do better in contests with less-educated electorates. He then said any of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich should be the Republican nominee. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. Trump responded in his typical style, by mocking Romney as a loser who was “begging” for his endorsement four years ago.
“I would also echo the many concerns about Mr. Trump’s uninformed and indeed risky statements on national security issues”, said McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees.’ He would have dropped to his knees”. In the days that followed, he lambasted her as, among other insults, a bimbo, lightweight and third-rate reporter. Trump, who dismissed Kelly as a “lightweight” and a “bimbo”, ended up boycotting a subsequent Fox debate, claiming the network was unfair.
Cruz, too, took the fight to Trump, saying that while it’s easy to print campaign slogans on baseball caps, as Trump does, the question is whether Trump understands what made America great in the first place.
Your thoughts on Thursday’s debate, particularly on the comments made by frontrunner Trump? And now that Marco Rubio has been bringing up the allegedly small size of Trump’s hands for a few days now, it was bound to come to this, right? The Florida primary is seen as a must-win for Rubio, who’s a distant third in the delegate race.
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The debate will be the first without Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and a favorite of Christian conservatives.
