It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Donald Trump didn’t hold his tongue at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s candidate forum.
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The New York Times published Tuesday an article that talks about the panic that now reigns within the Republican Party, “as it becomes increasingly plausible that Mr. Trump could be the party’s standard-bearer”. But what was remarkable was that the conservative Jewish group, backed by GOP megadonors such as Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, seemed to delight in Trump’s casual embrace of crude and historically troubling characterizations of Jews.
Trump also drew boos from the audience when he refused to categorically state that Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel.
But some his fellow Republicans vying for the White House were not.
“You want to control your own politician – that’s fine”.
“I will actually be using a script”, he announced before he began his speech.
In an interview Friday morning, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told the crowd. “They are dead wrong, and they don’t understand the enduring bond between Israel and America”.
“He’s the typical sort of person that historically folks thought of as a typical Republican – wealthy, country club guy who has a strong will and doesn’t listen a lot to hard working folks”, List said.
“I really don’t view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists”, the Republican presidential candidates said at a gun range in Johnston, Iowa, where he rolled out his Second Amendment Coalition, a group of gun rights advocates backing his GOP presidential bid.
Trump backtracked on comments that he made Wednesday in which he suggested that Israelis could sacrifice more than they had already for the sake of peace.
In a slightly larger sampling, Hillary Clinton has a almost two-to-one lead over Sen.
Trump shrugged off the criticism.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie received 4 percent of support, good enough to round out the top five. Compared to his rivals, he has raised – and spent – dramatically less, depending largely on free publicity to drive his campaign.
Yet he hasn’t ignored donors altogether. Just 27 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of independent voters support deportation. Several candidates blasted him from the stage. “It’s a struggle to safeguard the future of Israel”.
But I continue to believe the Cruz’s rise is the under-appreciated story of the season.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ohio Gov. John Katsich tied at 2 percent, while Kentucky Sen. “Because stupidly, you want to give money”.
The CNN/ORC poll had one more striking finding.
Similarly we will not know whether Donald Trump will easily win the nomination, or if a party regular will challenge him, until we see how the voters act.
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Carson said it a few different ways, but often it sounded as if he was talking about “hummus”, the chickpea dip that is popular in Israel and Arab countries.
