“Now maybe his tax returns show that those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported…” Christie went on to say that Trump will offer “more complete answers” on issues as time goes on and argued that “some members of the media and others want to hold Mr. Trump to a different standard than they want to hold the other candidates to”. Ted Cruz questioned whether Donald Trump’s tax returns contained information linking the billionaire mogul to organized crime. “They do not know the playbook with Donald Trump because he is rewriting the playbook”, said Christie.
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Trump’s unorthodox candidacy has shaken the Republican Party and has drawn increasingly vehement criticism from his rivals. “And I think it’s right for Marco to bring those things out and to keep on bringing those out”, she said.
Their back and forth came while voters went to the polls in South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, coming a week after South Carolina’s Republican primary. Other polls have given Cruz the advantage in his home state.
Trump again defended the hiring practices of a club he owns in Florida, whichbrought in foreign workers for jobs that Americans had applied for. “Cruz is smarter than Rubio”. “We are not going to let the conservative movement, and the party of Ronald Reagan and the party of Abraham Lincoln be taken over by a first-rate con-artist”.
Ray Washburne, who was Christie’s national finance chairman for his presidential campaign and is now unaligned, led the call.
During his time as a senator, Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, earned a combined average of $531,000 per year, the returns show.
When former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton released their tax returns, they both released the full tax filings.
But in Texas, Cruz is ahead at 39 percent – followed by Trump at 26 percent, Rubio at 16 percent, Carson at 8 percent and Kasich at 6 percent.
Cruz is the favorite to win the Texas primary, one of several states voting this week on “Super Tuesday”. Donald Trump likes to sue people. I’ve gotten to know all the people on that stage.
Todd then cut Cruz off, calling the accusation “openly speculative” and challenging Cruz to produce evidence of Trump’s alleged mafia dealings.
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“We are here to win the state on Tuesday, Trump quipped, “Maybe I’ll start shopping permanently at Walmart”.
