It’s easy to lose count of the many instances in which Donald Trump has pushed the rhetorical envelope, prompting campaign observers to write his political obituary.
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This race has heated up after a combustible Republican debate on February 13, when candidates shouted at each other and criticisms became personal.
It remains an unlikely path. Losers drop out. But as Iowa demonstrated, there may be more surprises to come this election year.
Although the former president did not once mention Trump’s name in his remarks, the implicit message was clear: Trump is not a serious candidate. Rubio’s setback in New Hampshire helps him.
But while Bush’s campaign has a robust team and plenty of money in their coffers and those of a pro-Bush super PAC ─ Bush has raised almost $32 million and the PAC, Right to Rise, has raised more than $118 million ─ the candidate needs to finish high in South Carolina’s six man race to justify moving forward, said Charles Bierbauer, dean of the University of South Carolina’s College of Information and Communications and a former CNN White House correspondent.
157-a-15-(David Andersen, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Iowa State University, in AP interview)-“that Obama seeks”-Iowa State University political analyst David Andersen says if Republicans who control the Senate refuse to act on someone nomoinated by President Obama, they may hurt their own party”. He has a fair amount of support from party actors, but it is factional. You know who has the tickets? Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
That’s the same path Rubio has been on all along: survive the early events and appeal to the widest range of groups, eventually consolidating all of the anti-Trump and/or anti-Cruz vote.
“The whole audience was stacked, mostly by Bush and Rubio types”. Another bad performance could doom him, as might anything that reinforces a view of him as an empty suit. And while his overzealous fans will doubtless love what they saw – they always do, no matter what – one wonders how he can possibly expect to increase his base of support going forward.
He has added about 100 endorsements from those state-level politicians in the past three weeks and now has 324 current and former state legislators backing him.
Bush wins if he surges off his mediocre fourth-place finish in New Hampshire.
He faces several hurdles that make success unlikely.
“It’s really more equivalent to a gubernatorial campaign than a primary campaign”, Dyke said.
Cruz is using the potential vacancy to build on his long-standing argument that Republicans should select a nominee with the most conservative credentials. Trump has said she would make a good justice, but Cruz said she would not be a good choice, citing an opinion she wrote in 2000 that held a New Jersey law banning late-term abortions placed an “undue burden” on a woman’s constitutional right to have the procedure.
SC is also considered by some to be a microcosm of the Republican Party, and a test in the Palmetto State a test for Republicans’ viability.
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“This is just nuts”, Kasich interjected. Conservatives have convinced themselves to believe Bush/Cheney “kept us safe” (9/11 isn’t supposed to count), while also maintaining the fiction that the war in Iraq was necessary, just, and successful (pre-war lies, war casualties, and catastrophic consequences must go unnoticed).
