“If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished”, Romney said.
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“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud”.
Romney speculated that the reason Trump hasn’t done so is that the returns might reveal he isn’t worth as much as he lets on, or that he doesn’t give to veterans’ groups as much as he says that he does.
Their moment of unity provided the only positive element in the debate which once again degenerated into a personal mud-slinging contest between Trump and his two fiercest rivals, Cruz and Rubio, with Kasich also throwing a few jabs of his own at the presidential front-runner. Story by the Associated PressFormer Dept. of State spokesperson P.J. Crowley on latest Trump criticismsFor more on the latest criticisms of Trump, CCTV America’s Asieh Namdar interviewed P.J.
“I’m not going to even go there”, Romney said.
“Rubio says if there’s anyone who has ever deserved to be treated that way it’s Donald Trump”.
On Trump: “Donald Trump in 2008 wrote four checks to elect Hillary Clinton as president, so I would like to ask Donald why did you write checks to Hillary Clinton to be president in 2008? We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can’t do it, we’ll get them in”, he said in the debate. “Breathe, breathe, breathe”, Cruz told him.
The former governor actually launched his Mitt Romney 2016 campaign more than a week ago when he called out Trump on Twitter for not having released his tax returns.
“I’ve supported Democrats and I’ve supported Republicans, and as a businessman I owed that to my company, to my family, to my workers, to everybody to get along”, he said.
As Mitt Romney has launched an effort to do anything and everything to prevent Trump’s nomination, Gardner could not commit to opposing Trump if his party selects Trump as its nominee.
A total of 1,237 delegates are required to win the Republican nomination.
During the show Friday, Lauer noted that Romney’s criticism of Trump, coming from a former presidential candidate toward a current candidate, is unprecedented. Ben Carson announced this week that he doesn’t “see a political path forward” following the results of Super Tuesday, and that he will not attend the debate on Thursday night.
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Rubio asked Trump why he does not bring his clothing-making operations to the United States from China and Mexico if he is so interested in bringing jobs home, a central tenet of his unconventional campaign.
