2016 presidential candidate John Kasich.
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This does not appear to be a contest to decide who is most conservative, according to the Suffolk survey. “We really have no choice, we have to knock out ISIS”, Trump said. “I am not going to destroy the US economy for a law that will do nothing for our environment”. Trump or another GOP contender could rack up that number in the primaries unfolding now. The number of unbound delegates is not yet clear, but it could be a few hundred people. “Whoever gets the most delegates should win”.
Kasich has an even worse record in this primary than Rubio, who won in Minnesota and Puerto Rico. He has previously talked of “knocking the hell” out of ISIS without offering specifics.
Rubio’s collapse has coincided with his recent shift to an all-out war on Trump; the senator admitted on Wednesday that some of his more juvenile insults had made him and his family uncomfortable at times. “Now you can say what you want, and you can be politically correct if you want”.
“That doesn’t mean I’m endorsing Putin”, Trump said. And while his opponents spoke out against violence in general, they didn’t blame Trump for creating a culture that encourages it – instead trying to tap into the anger and frustration within the GOP themselves.
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The fourth candidate, Ohio Gov.
“The temperature in Chicago was over 100 degrees, and the convention was going into the weekend”, says Stephen Hess, an expert on the presidency and the press at the Brookings Institution. “They get in there and they start hitting people”.
The 30-second spot, “Closest”, makes the case for Rubio as “the Republican who exposed Donald Trump as a fraud, and who’s closest to beating Trump in Florida”. Marco Rubio, saying the group’s ads are false and misleading.
There are a total of 367 delegates at stake on Tuesday, including a total of 165 in Florida and Ohio.
Crucial state contests are being held in Florida and OH next week, as Mr Trump’s rivals try to make up ground. Next Tuesday, each man will face the voters of their respective home states of Florida and Ohio. “But if either wins, he stays in – maybe on life support – but he battles on”.
Marco Rubio and John Kasich may have the most to gain or lose. Cruz vs. Florida Sen. But the OH governor argues that because OH is hosting the convention, he will have a leg up if there is ongoing jockeying for the nomination. “And we shouldn’t have it”, Trump said of the highly skilled visa program.
On the Tiananmen Square protests that broke out in China in 1989, Trump said he believed the Chinese government had a “strong, powerful” response that “kept down the riot”.
“Nobody knows the system better than me”, Trump said, when debate moderator Anderson Cooper asked about Trump’s hiring of foreign workers for his businesses. “The problem is presidents can’t just say anything they want because it has consequences around the world”. “Kasich’s path is so narrow at this point as to be invisible”.
It was the most detailed view yet of Trump’s thinking about Islamic State.
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With that kind of pressure, there is some motive for the non-Trump candidates to swipe at each other and not just the front-runner. “He would be the sort of candidate that the others could unite around”.
