In the short run, the beneficiary of this rampage could well be Donald Trump. He contended that Trump “has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president”.
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His speech in Utah, where he has a home, came at a critical juncture for the Republican Party, with Trump’s march to the nomination setting off alarm among GOP leaders who fear that he would lose the general election and tarnish the party’s brand for a generation.
The most recent Republican presidential nominee is taking shots at Donald Trump’s fitness to be president. I am not a Mitt Romney, who doesn’t know how to win.
Economic policy Mr Romney also said Mr Trump’s economic policy would sink America “into prolonged recession” and his foreign policy would endanger the country. “He’s playing the American public for suckers”.
After two hours of pummeling Trump’s character and castigating his readiness to be president, both said unequivocally that they would fall in line behind the businessman and support his candidacy if he becomes the Republican nominee.
But he dropped back into the fray as he sought to mock Rubio’s criticism of him – including the Florida senator’s line that Trump supposedly has small hands. “Of course, [Democrats] are going to use that”.
Trump on the torture debate and what he’d do: “Can you imagine these people, these animals over in the Middle East that chop off heads, sitting around talking and seeing that we’re having a hard problem with waterboarding?”
While Cruz attempted to knock Donald Trump for his political donations to Hillary Clinton and an ongoing lawsuit over Trump University, the Republican front-runner refused to let the senator speak uninterrupted. He said “There’s plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man…” and predicted Trump’s election as president would “injure our families and our country”. Would he follow through on his threats to make House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (and presumably other Republican leaders in Congress) “pay a big price” if they refuse to capitulate to the Democrats or Trump’s way of thinking on court nominees, spending bills or defense issues?
The 2016 Democratic race also isn’t coming close to fueling the kind of enthusiasm seen in 2008, when Clinton’s epic battle against Barack Obama drove record primary turnout. It’s a stunning admission for a party that has spent decades trying to oust the Clintons from power. “I am an endorser of Donald Trump….”
Rubio chimed in, “When they’re done with the yoga, can I answer a question?”
But Trump, who routinely bashes the press on the campaign trail, said off-the-record conversations were “a very important thing… a very powerful thing”.
Rick Tyler, a former spokesman for Sen.
Trump said it was simply business. I’m afraid to say that he is very very not smart”, Romney said, adding, “Donald Trump says he admires Vladimir Putin.
Democrats, in the meantime, are watching in gleeful disbelief from the sidelines. “They flat out ignored him for too long”. “It was like one of those disaster films where there were all these clues that something bad was going to happen but no one takes the signs seriously until there’s a disaster, and then they’re screwed”.
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The billionaire businessman traded below-the-belt blows with fellow Republican contender Marco Rubio following Trump’s success on Super Tuesday.
