While Romney stopped short of endorsing any particular Republican candidate, he said that Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Gov. John Kasich could be superior alternatives and that Trump’s prospective nomination would “enable [Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s] victory”.
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Fox News host Chris Wallace dropped a hammer of a question while quoting Romney.
He started the debate by backing off his evisceration of 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who had attacked him earlier in the day. Romney said if you want to be the nominee you have to prosecute the opposition.
Ted Cruz tried to take the air out of Trump’s sails at one point, after a Trump interruption.
Rubio excused his own attacks by insisting it was Trump who opened the flood gates. “I think you get all the upside with him without any of the downside: He’s strong, but he’s informed; he’s conservative, but electable; he doesn’t just talk about the American dream, he’s actually lived it; and he’s a person of good character”. Marco Rubio earlier in the week. He said he had changed his mind to support allowing in more highly skilled workers from overseas, adding, “I’m changing.
Nobody has ever hit my hands”, Mr Trump said, referring to Mr Rubio’s recent personal attack stating that the celebrity billionaire has small hands. “I’m not running for president”, he said.
Some party leaders and donors are critical of Trump’s positions on trade and immigration, including his calls to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, deport 11 million illegal immigrants and temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country.
Trump then noted that Rubio had mocked his hands as small, widely viewed as an insult about Trump’s sexual prowess, and, holding his hands up to the audience, he declared, “I guarantee you, there’s no problem” in that area.
Nevertheless, Trump remains well ahead in polls for the Republican contests, though he has yet to amass enough delegates to put him entirely out of reach of his competitors.
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“But the answer is, yes, I will”.
