An email sent out by his campaign later Saturday referred to the scenes from the cancelled Chicago rally as something “we would see in a third-world country”.
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Marco Rubio speaks on March 12, 2016, about his increasing unease about supporting Donald Trump if he is nominated for president. “If a voter in OH is motivated by stopping Donald Trump, I suspect that’s the only choice they can make”.
Rubio and Kasich delivered solid reprises of their strongest debate moments to date, as if to say that if this was going to be their last outing, they would at least be at their best.
Rubio is “a climate-change denier” who doesn’t support ObamaCare; Cruz “has no empathy for undocumented immigrants” and likes guns.
Rubio, fighting for his political life, said it is Trump who could destroy the party given the many Republicans who vow never to support the NY real estate mogul.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz hedged on a question about whether former-rival-turned-supporter Carly Fiorina would be on his vice presidential short list if he gets the nomination. As they began to move him toward the exit, Trump said, “Take him home to mommy”. “Do I think all of those things make up a couple of points?”
For Rubio especially, who has collected only two wins so far – one of them in Puerto Rico – Florida’s all-or-nothing contest could be his campaign’s swan song if he doesn’t win.
Republicans should have seen Donald Trump coming, President Barack Obama argued in front of Democratic donors Friday.
Trump, who has labeled Mexican migrants rapists and drug traffickers and said he would ban Muslims entering the United States, also said it was “time to end the debates” and hinted he may not do the next one. “I think we made the right decision [to cancel]… even though our freedom of speech was violated”. And: “So what you’re seeing within the Republican Party is, to some degree, all those efforts over a course of time creating an environment where somebody like a Donald Trump can thrive”.
He said leaders should also “speak out against violence ” . This Marco Rubio who looks stunned that he is losing to a Hitler-esque figure.
Rubio and Kasich must win their home state contests Tuesday to stay in the race.
Obama called Trump “a distillation of what has been going on in their party for more than a decade”, saying comparing establishment Republicans to Captain Louis Renault from the movie Casablanca.
It concludes: “We don’t need him in Ohio”. “This is a man who, in rallies, has told his supporters to basically beat up the people who are in the crowd and he will pay their legal fees”.
Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, too, will be competing on Tuesday, with Clinton out to regain momentum after her startling loss to Sanders in MI this week.
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Perhaps in an attempt to quell any such concerns, the front-runner closed his news conference with something not often heard in presidential politics: a defense of his supporters for getting physically aggressive with a protester at a recent rally.
