At 9 p.m. EST, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich took the stage for the 11th debate of the cycle.
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The GOP candidates in the 2016 presidential election insulted, interrupted and fought with each other for two hours in a prime-time debate broadcast live by Fox News from the Fox Theatre in Detroit.
While speaking to supporters at a rally Friday afternoon here in Cadillac, Michigan, he was describing Rubio during the GOP debate in New Hampshire as he sustained attacks from New Jersey Gov. (and new Trump supporter) Chris Christie.
He defended his decision to speak out so late in the process – after Trump has rolled through early states and has a chance to lock up the nomination on March 15 with wins in Florida and Ohio.
“I don’t know what happened to him”, Trump said.
Polls show Trump leading in MI, though Cruz and Rubio are both campaigning hard. And he referred to my hands, if they’re small, something else has to be small. “I guarantee you there’s no problem, I guarantee”, Mr. Trump said. Trump’s remarks, likely unprecedented in a United States presidential debate, appeared as the nadir of a campaign season already notable for its provocative and assaulting tone.
Trump countered with a mild effort at detente, saying he’d called Rubio a “lightweight” in the past, but “he’s really not that much of a lightweight”.
The debate quickly went down a negative path when Mr Trump responded to Mr Rubio’s contention last month that Mr Trump had “small hands”.
“If there’s anyone who’s ever deserved to be attacked that way, it’s Donald Trump”, Rubio said. He acknowledged that Rubio, Texas Sen.
Romney said in an unprecedented speech Thursday morning that Trump’s domestic policies will lead to recession and his foreign policy will make the country less safe.
“I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees.’ He would have dropped to his knees, ‘” Trump said, in what was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled sexual joke.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump struck back at 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday, blasting the former MA governor for “begging” for his endorsement four years ago only to sharply criticize him now.
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It was an important pledge from all the candidates, on a day when reports swirled of plans in the Republican party to try to stop Mr. Trump’s candidacy at the convention this summer. Kasich said. “People say, wherever I go: ‘You seem to be the adult on stage'”.
