“I think Donald Trump is terrifying, and I absolutely hate what he stands for”, Clinton said in an email to her supporters, hours after Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee blasted his party’s own presidential front-runner.
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But what if Trump does?
As he did the day previously, Trump fired back at Romney in a speech.
Marco Rubio said he wanted to talk policy at the Fox News debate, but things quickly devolved into trading insults with front-runner Donald Trump.
Trump won big on Super Tuesday earlier this week, a key contest involving votes in a dozen states.
“For 40 years, Donald has been part of the corruption in Washington” that people are angry about, Cruz said, citing Trump’s campaign contributions to leading Democrats, including then-Sen.
“If we nominate Donald we’re going to spend the summer and fall with the Republican nominee facing a fraud trial.with Hillary Clinton pointing out that he supported her four times”, Cruz predicted.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Texas has 110 delegates and Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 25. Ted Cruz, he said: “Yes, because I gave my word that I would”, referring to a pledge candidates signed past year to back the ultimate victor of the race. To the suggestion that he might be small elsewhere, Trump said: “I guarantee you there is no problem”.
Asked whether they would support the eventual Republican nominee, Cruz, Kasich and Rubio all said they would, even while insisting they had not given up the fight against Trump.
“If I get out, all these people are going, they are going with me”.
He said that Mr. Trump has told voters that he will betray them when he repeatedly said during the debate Thursday that as a deal-maker you “have to be flexible”. “If there’s anyone who deserved to be attacked it’s Donald Trump”.
In a weird attack, Rubio had said Trump’s hands were small, to which Trump replied.
Kelly first addressed Trump a half-hour into Thursday’s debate. “If I were a person from Florida – they’ve been defrauded”.
But Rubio said, “The reason why he makes it in China or Mexico is because he can make more money on it”. I have never heard of this.
It is increasingly unclear what party leaders can do to stop Trump, who has a commanding lead both in national polls and in the count of delegates needed to win the nomination.
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The debate was held in Detroit, sponsored by Fox News Channel and moderated by Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Wallace.
