Still, in a striking moment, all of Mr Trump’s rivals on stage indicated that they would support him if he became the Republican nominee.
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No one except Ohio Gov. John Kasich sounded remotely presidential, which leads to the question of which brand took more of a beating – Trump or the Republican Party? “If I wanted to advance Mitt Romney, I would have filed as a person seeking delegates in the various states”. “I hate his total lack of understanding of complex issues that impact Americans”, Clinton, 68, said in her email on Thursday.
Holding his hands up for the audience to see, Trump said: “I guarantee you, there’s no problem”.
“I’m not running for president and I won’t run for president”, Romney said on the “Today” show.
“Rubio says if there’s anyone who has ever deserved to be treated that way it’s Donald Trump”. During a speech Thursday, Romney referred to the Republican candidate as a “phony and a fraud”. CNN points out Cruz only won four states in the primaries and caucuses.
The statements reflected not only Mr Trump’s advantage in the race, but also the party’s growing disquiet about the implications of nominating him.
Trump noted that Rubio had mocked his hands as small, widely viewed as an insult about Trump’s sexual prowess. But the big turnout you are seeing is both pro-Trump and anti-Trump, so there are record numbers of people coming because of Donald Trump, but not just to be for him.
But the debate quickly went down a negative path when Trump responded to rival Marc Rubio’s contention last month that Trump had “small hands”.
Trump refused to release the tape but said he would be flexible, for instance, on the height of the wall.
Senator Ted Cruz repeatedly called on him to release the tapes of the New York Times off-the-record briefing in which he is reported to have said he was flexible on immigration.
Cruz and Rubio took the verbal fight to Trump.
“He was a failed candidate”.
“A very good man, Ben Carson, is not there any more, so now we’re going to have more time for the fighting”.
“We are not going to turn over the conservative movement of the party of Lincoln and Regan to someone who thinks the Nuclear Triad is a rock band from the 1980s”, Rubio.
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In response to a question from CBS News’ Alan He about whether Cruz would be open to a Cruz-Rubio GOP ticket with Cruz as president, Cruz didn’t rule it out.
