Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side and businessman Donald Trump on the Republican side won most of the states and most of the delegates.
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Trump was again the most-searched candidate on Google, and he was the most-discussed candidate on Twitter with 62 percent of tweets.
That split widened when Mr Romney, the party nominee in 2012, urged Republican primary voters to vote tactically in different states to back Mr Trump’s opponents and block his path to the nomination. I was hit from every side, every angle that you can be hit from, very viciously, but I think we did well in the debate. Calling him a “phony” and a “fraud”, former party standard-bearer Romney said Trump’s policies – like the deportation of undocumented migrants and banning Muslims from entering the USA – would make the world less safe.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich on why he stays out of the mud on debate nights: “I have never tried to go and get into these kind of scrums that we’re seeing here on the stage and people say everywhere I go, ‘you seem to be the adult on the stage'”.
Lauer was quick to point out that four years ago, when Romney was running for president, he gladly accepted Trump’s endorsement. “Mitt is a failed candidate – he failed”.
When moderator Megyn Kelly told Trump his shifts caused some people to question his core, Trump insisted: “I have a very strong core”.
“If the big, fat GOP don’t like him, they don’t like me”. Spearheading that effort was Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee, who accused Trump of bullying, greed and misogyny.
Rubio had suggested that because Trump’s hands were small, his genitals might also be small.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. “And you know what they say about guys with small hands”, he said last week, during a stream of the most personal attacks on Trump’s hair, skin, and continence, in order to try to climb back in to contention. The most interesting of the exchanges came when Trump referred to Rubio as “Little Marco”. He did something similar earlier in this debate when he changed his position on immigration, saying he would admit highly skilled workers: “I’m changing”.
Clinton has attacked controversial Trump before also.
“I did not get into this to beat up on other candidates”, he said.
At the start of the debate, in one of a number of unusual moments, Mr Trump defended the size of his hands and then alluded to another part of his anatomy.
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At Thursday night’s debate, he conceded he would vote for whomever the party nominates, even Trump. NBC News and other outlets projected Trump would win Kentucky over Cruz shortly before 11 p.m.
