Trump and Bush tangled over American involvement in the Middle East. Trump quoted an unnamed general, who said: “You know, Mr. Trump?”
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“We must stand side-by-side every step of the way with France and our allies around the world to wage and win the struggle against terrorism and violent extremism”, Clinton said in a statement Friday evening.
“According to other Republicans, a few in the party establishment are so desperate to change the dynamic that they are talking anew about drafting [Mitt] Romney-despite his insistence that he will not run again”, the Post reports. The other three said they were uncommitted.
Businesswoman Carly Fiorina ranks sixth with 5 percent support, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at at 3 percent and Christie, in eighth, at 2 percent. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in fifth place with four votes each.
The rhetoric was nothing new from the billionaire businessman, but it appeared more startling given the setting, and the fact that two of his rivals-one the son of Cuban immigrants and the other the husband of a Mexican immigrant-were once viewed as leading contenders who could help the GOP attract Latino voters. The unique institution front-runner, former Florida Gov. … I suspect they will pull out before the primary to avoid embarrassment if they can’t see any prospects of winning. Though Romney, like all politicians, looks better in retrospect now that he’s exited politics, the same flaws he faced last time-his cultural disconnect with the base of the party, his stiffness, his patrician demeanor and background-would reassert themselves the second he entered. Instead, while Carson and Trump continue to pull ahead in early polling, Bush has fallen further behind, leaving officials disoriented.
In an interview, Rubio played down his standing among Democratic insiders. “People that have not been here long enough will have to be deported”, Rubio explained. Trump’s maturation will make it more hard for his critics to dismiss him as cartoonish. He said Bush has trouble with the conservative voters on issues like his support for the Common Core education standards and his immigration proposals.
“He’s a loose cannon”, Missouri superdelegate Sandra Querry said of Trump.
“I would love for Mitt to run, but I’m not participating in any of the discussion because I really think he has moved on”.
“This is a war being created by Islamic terrorists”, Bush told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Indeed, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon responded to the exchange by tweeting, ‘We actually are doing high-fives right now’.
The Clinton campaign declined to comment on the strength of the Republican field.
“You know, Tom, this is the 21st century and, as a black woman, I don’t think I need to ask people’s position, ” she said.
Even more superdelegates praised Kasich, a two-term OH governor who served 18 years in the House.
The political press corps made up its mind about him – too divisive – as soon as he showed up in Washington, and has never entirely gotten over its dismissiveness about his campaign.
‘A Democratic nightmare would begin and end with a Rubio-Kasich ticket, ‘ said former state Rep. Boyd Brown of SC. Florida is also one of the key swing states, and the recount of the state’s votes decided the 2000 election in favour of Republican George W. Bush. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, talk backstage before the start of the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Saturday, October 24, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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State Party Chairman David Pepper said he’s feeling good about the way the 2016 race is shaping up, saying he thinks policy differences on such issues as taxes and health care put the Democratic candidates more in touch with mainstream America.
