When one donor asked about trade, he was surprised to hear Rubio turn the question back on an absent Donald Trump.
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The Thursday night debate in Houston takes place just a few days before 11 states hold GOP primaries that could cement Trump’s dominance of the Republican race for president. The only good news for anti-Trump Republicans is that with Jeb Bush out, they can all line up behind Rubio. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who finished third and fourth in the poll, the necessary fodder to pressure Rubio to drop out of the race.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada February 21, 2016. His last hope is his home state of Texas, but one state can’t win you the election. He’s always needed evangelicals and social conservatives to come out in great numbers to have a chance at the presidency, but excluding his Iowa victory, those folks have gone for Trump instead.
Later, at the fundraiser, Rubio said that Trump was effectively running a con on Republican voters. “I think it’s going to be a robust, strong debate”.
Vice-President Joe Biden said during a visit in Mexico on Thursday that some of the campaign rhetoric about Mexico has been “dangerous, damaging and incredibly ill-advised”.
Still, the prime-time event will be telling – will he give Cruz and Rubio any breathing room to make their case?
As they seek to become the Trump alternative, Cruz and Rubio have significant liabilities of their own.
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, center, speaks as Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
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He avoided a similar mistake in the subsequent debate, but he’s under the microscope for anything that suggests the 44-year-old legislator isn’t sufficiently prepared to move into the White House.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson says the United States is changing – and not for the better. While some Republicans have called on Kasich to exit the race so that opponents can build an anti-Trump coalition, the OH governor said his departure would mean only that Trump would win his state and thereby lock up the nomination.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
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Sen. Marco Rubio won’t receive any home field advantage in Florida, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll that shows him trailing GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by double digits.
