However, several of his presidential rivals including the two closest and bitter rivals – Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz – berated Trump over his immigration positions and doubted the practicality of such a move.
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Republican U.S. presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Donald Trump both speak at the debate sponsored by CNN for the 2016 Republican U.S. presidential candidates in Houston, Texas, Feb. 25, 2016. “If you look at Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, they started moving people out and the rest of them left”, he said. “Have you ever negotiated with terrorists?”
Seeking to become the Trump alternative, Cruz and Rubio have significant liabilities of their own. “And with your thinking you will never bring peace”. “And then we’ll see what the American people are willing to support”, Rubio said.
While Rubio has dismissed concerns about his primary strategy – and continues to insist that the fractured GOP field has contributed to Trump’s dominance – failure to win a single delegate in his home state’s winner-take-all contest would seriously undercut his viability as a candidate.
Trump and the four other remaining Republican candidates took to the stage for latest televised debate in Houston.
But he has since moved away from that position, telling Mr Cruz: “I do not want socialised medicine, just so you understand”. He said Trump should ignore his opponents and focus on the key planks in his platform – a border wall to keep out illegal immigrants, a stronger military, defeating Islamic State and fair trade.
It’s very likely Trump will face questions about his taxes after 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney floated the idea on Fox News yesterday that there is possibly a “bombshell” in them.
The debate is the last before next week’s Super Tuesday contests and could turn into a slugfest between Trump, Rubio, and Cruz. Rubio asked. “Selling watches in midtown Manhattan”. Texas is also the home state of Cruz, and he is counting on a win there.
Bush suspended his campaign on Saturday after a poor showing in three early primary states.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrated his resounding victory in Tuesday’s Nevada caucuses, but nearly as soon as he declared “we’re winning, winning”, he was already thinking bigger.
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Ben Carson’s remarks to supporters Tuesday night, echoed in a news release distributed by his campaign this morning, might leave all but his most die-hard supporters scratching their heads. “What we need to do is be looking for solutions tonight”.
