Santorum was running a shoe-string campaign and was buoyed by impressive legwork-he crisscrossed the state obsessively-and the fact that no one was excited about weak frontrunner Mitt Romney.
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The would-be president said he would register Muslims in a national database and probably close some of their mosques.
First, Cruz disagreed with Trump after the New Yorker expressed openness to setting up a registry of Muslim Americans in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. And that’s only in the last week. Cruz rode to fame as a divisive figure within the GOP, going out of his way to pick fights with colleagues and position himself as the “real conservative”.
The anger of conservative voters has been evident all year, but this week the nonpartisan Pew Research Center released an important study that added new detail to the picture.
“They say that Trump can do nearly anything, and nobody leaves me”.
Obama, who drew sharp criticism from Republicans and some Democrats for his response to the deadly November 13 terrorist attacks, met on Tuesday in Washington with French President Francois Hollande, who is seeking to bolster worldwide cooperation and intensified attacks against ISIS forces.
Noble, a former operative in the Koch brothers’ network who personally supports Rubio, said Cruz’s vote amounted to political posturing for a presidential race that was expected to look a lot different then than it does now. “Tone matters”, Cruz said.
Between Trump’s fans there were seven students from Columbus Alternative High School that came to get extra credit for a history class, claims the same source.
But Neal Thigpen, a retired political science professor in Florence, says the establishment could calm down and settle on Rubio.
We on the other side aren’t supposed to gloat. Fully half of the party’s voters didn’t wake up one morning and decide, for no particular reason, that experience as a Republican elected official was the last thing they wanted in a presidential candidate. “And we’re out to clean house”.
Trump is the overwhelming favorite by Republican voters on the top issues including handling terrorism, immigration, tax policy, and “bring[ing] about needed change in Washington”, garnering between 42 to 47 percent support on these issues. Some campaigns have seemed reluctant to directly take on the Trump machine. More to the point, the kind of work this group is described as being engaged in is the sort of thing all candidates face in a truly competitive primary process.
Rubio has already emerged as a consensus candidate for some in the Republican establishment, so he may have the most to lose from Cruz’s propulsion.
The public’s heightened fear may not last until next year’s general election, but it will surely remain fresh until the Iowa caucuses in January. The more reticent such leaders are, the more successfully Trump can brand their party and, to a disturbing extent, the nation with his demagoguery. By all rights, something should happen to unseat him.
Reciting his own dominant poll numbers, Trump told the crowd “your governor’s” only at 2 percent.
One Corona woman took it upon herself to write a letter to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, detailing her thoughts on his recent comments about Muslims in America.
“At the time, it’s clear that he viewed Rand Paul as his main competition for that wing of the party”, Noble said, referring to Cruz’s libertarian-leaning colleague in the Senate. Maybe the voters will wise up, he ventured.
Fifty percent of the Americans surveyed said they disapprove of Obama’s performance while 46 percent approve, a turnabout from a 51 percent to 45 percent margin in October that marked the president’s best showing in more than two years, according to the poll. “He lives by the polls and will die by the polls”, he said. (He also got very unlucky with media coverage: Preliminary results showed him losing the Hawkeye State caucus, only to be crowned the victor later, by 34 votes.) The former Pennsylvania senator never had much funding.
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Republican elites are panicky about the durable dominance of Trump (and to a lesser extent Ben Carson) in the presidential race.
