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Debate takeaways: Under attack, Trump strikes back at rivals

Rubio’s comments apparently originated from the Spy magazine in the 1980 when Trump was referred to as a short-fingered vulgarian.

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The Fox News Republican debate started off more like a testosterone-fueled conversation at a bar than a nationally-televised 2016 presidential election event featuring GOP candidates.

“That’s the quandary I’m trying to avoid the Republicans Party having to face”, he said.

Twenty three delegates will be split among four candidates in Maine’s caucuses on Saturday.

“For this past year, Donald Trump has basically mocked everybody with personal attacks”, Rubio said, adding, “So if there is anyone who has ever deserved to be attacked that way, it has been Donald Trump”.

Jennifer Hallowell worked on John McCain’s campaign for President in 2008.

“So I would like to take that back”, Trump said.

For the past 10 years she has voted Republican, switching her allegiance from previous elections, in which she voted as an independent or Democrat. Rand Paul. The new caucuses were arranged so he could run for president and his Senate seat at the same time, a step that required Kentucky to move away from its usual May primary to avoid a legal challenge. “I didn’t find this past one quite as entertaining”.

Rubio then said of Trump: “He’s very flexible, so you never know”. It’s one of the reasons people on the “alt-right” – the people who think that calling someone a “cuck” is the most brutal of online owns – are so excited about his candidacy.

“I hate that he said he “didn’t know enough” about the KKK to disavow an endorsement from its former leader – what does he need to know?”

It’s a circumstance that is not likely to change anytime soon, at least not as long as a candidate think it helps him build support, and obviously some of them do.

At center stage, Trump, 69, defended himself from criticism earlier in the day from 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney and faced further questions about his business record. The Florida senator challenged Trump to return the money.

Following his big wins Tuesday night, which put him in a commanding position for the Republican nomination, this might have been the night when Trump could safely shift into statesman mode, acting like a presumed nominee instead of a candidate.

Trump making nice to Megyn Kelly: “Nice to be with you Megyn”.

Kasich has argued emphatically that his ability to win his home state of OH makes him the best candidate for Republicans looking to win the White House. “Flexible is Washington code word that he’s going to stick it to the people”, Cruz said Friday.

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“When they’re done with the yoga can I answer the question?” “There was 16 of them and we are now down, I am the last governor and there is five of us in the race”, Kasich told CNN’s Ryan Nobles in an interview for the “RunningMate” podcast.

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