Trump’s delivery may have been softer, but some of his words were hard-edged as ever – especially when he defended comments made in a recent CNN interview when he said, “I think Islam hates us”.
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Trump leads Rubio in Florida by a dramatic 43 percent to 20 percent among likely Republican primary voters, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.
Trump also addressed the issue of violence at his rallies, following the arrest of a man who punched a protester in the face in a chaotic scene at one of his campaign events. “We’re better than that”.
“The numbers don’t add up”, Rubio said of Trump’s plan to preserve Social Security by reducing fraud and abuse and making the country wealthier.
A more measured Donald Trump pivoted toward uniting the battered GOP in a tamer Republican debate last night, steering clear of put-downs and touting his pending endorsement today by former rival Ben Carson, even as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio jabbed at him. “This is what happens when political candidates talk like people on Twitter”.
Clashes broke out Friday night between protesters and Trump supporters after the campaign announced the rally would be canceled more than 30 minutes after it was scheduled to start.
Claudia Young and her husband, Michael, came from Muncie, Indiana, arriving more than three hours before the late-morning event. Stick with us for all the #GOPDebate coverage and to see who continues on the road to the White House.
There were about a dozen young protesters on a corner about half a mile away from the hangar.
Candidates shuttled out of Florida and abandoned their vicious rhetoric – at least with each other – as the tone and central front in the increasingly desperate push to stop Donald Trump shifted on Friday.
“Imagine what Trump would say if he had this record. instead of selling steaks”, he said. “Because this is a great city and we don’t want to let that person in here”. “Bernie! Bernie!” and “We stopped Trump!”
“I will say I’m pro-Israel”, Trump said. Are they really that different, more moderate and reasonable as they like to make themselves out to be, than their national counterparts who are just shilling for the billionaires?
Alex Conant, Rubio’s communications director, admitted on CNN Friday that the best way to stop the real estate mogul in the Buckeye State would be to vote for the state’s governor, John Kasich, while Rubio is best positioned to stop Trump in the Sunshine State.
In that state, the super PACs supporting Rubio and Kasich have been aiming one televised salvo after another against each other.
“He was a rough guy, and he was punching”.
“The Republican women had looked at trying to do the delegates by congressional district, and we were just told there wasn’t even a starter on that conversation”, said Cynthia Henderson, the group’s past president. “It was a attractive thing”.
“A campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment when the candidate urged supporters to engage in physical violence”, said Cruz. “Today is unlikely to be the last such incidence”. “We’re going to come up with solutions, we’re going to find the answers to things, and so far I can’t believe how civil it has been up here”, Trump said.
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Trump said he stopped the Chicago rally on the advice of law enforcement, though the Chicago Police Department was not contacted or involved in the decision, said spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
