“Lucifer in the flesh”, Boehner said of Cruz, who is a staunch fiscal conservative and who angered many of his colleagues in Congress by leading a government shutdown in 2013.
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On Wednesday at a Stanford University forum, Boehner unleashed on Cruz, calling him “Lucifer in the flesh”, saying he’s “never worked with a more miserable son of a b–” – and declaring “over my dead body will he be president”.
Clinton also derided Trump for what she characterized as a “secret plan” to defeat ISIS and said she found his comments lately “disturbing”.
“I think the only card she has is the women’s card”, Trump said. Trump swept five GOP contests, and Hillary Clinton won four of the Democratic primaries.
The Midwest, which includes Wisconsin where Mr Cruz won decisively, also has a different political culture from the North-east and the South, where Mr Trump has dominated the field.
Rival Bernie Sanders’ team has sent mixed signals about his standing in the race, with one top adviser suggesting a tough night would push the Vermont senator to reassess his bid and another vowing to fight “all the way to the convention”.
For his part, Trump is starting to turn more and more attention to Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee in the fall election. The opening act is front-runner Donald Trump.
The next election contest is May 3 in IN and Tennessee.
It was another superb Super Tuesday for Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump, the outsider, is making his case to California’s Republican establishment. “All five”, said Donald Trump while speaking to supporters Tuesday night. Cruz and Kasich are desperately trying to keep Trump from that magic number and push the race to a convention fight. “This is not subtle, it’s not complicated”. “I applaud Sen. Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of politics and putting greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality”, she said. “And champion jobs, freedom and security”, he said.
As for the Republican race, Trump said both Cruz and Kasich should drop out of the race because neither can obtain a majority of delegates ahead of a first ballot. Trump’s and Clinton’s wins propelled them ever closer to a general election showdown.
“When he is attacked, he will respond”, Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told Reuters in an interview. “And I know together we will get that done”.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll this month showed a big gender gap for Trump. About two-thirds of women had an unfavorable view of the billionaire businessman and former reality TV star, while 54 percent of men had a negative view of him.
Clinton has in her political career at times benefited from missteps by male candidates. Trump’s speech offered an early glimpse of how he would seek to undermine Clinton’s experience in foreign policy and assure Republicans who are wary of his ability to provide a steady hand in leading the nation’s interests around the globe and overseeing the USA nuclear capability and military.
The campaign will have gone from a staff of more than 1,000 in January to about 325-350, Briggs said.
“If you want to stop Trump, we’d better win IN, and [challenger Ted] Cruz and [challenger John] Kasich better coordinate their strategy regarding California”, said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. He›ll wind up with more delegates than he was projected to get; Nate Silver says Trump “basically made up all the ground he lost in WI and CO”.
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McCain has repeatedly pledged to support his party’s eventual nominee; but he expressed doubts about the ability of Republicans to unite behind Trump.
