In the most notable attacks on Trump as party leaders try to stop his run to the GOP nomination, Romney and House Speaker Paul Ryan, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2012, urged voters in the strongest terms to shun the former reality television star for the good of country and party. “The only serious policy proposals that deal with the broad range of national challenges we confront, come today from Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich”. “I don’t think he has the temperament to be president and so I want to see one of the other three [Republican candidates] become the nominee”.
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With Donald Trump emerging as the undisputed front-runner in the presidential nomination race, the Republican establishment mounted a concerted attack on the brash billionaire on and off stage only to have the tables turned on them. “People are energised by what I’m saying” and turning out in remarkable numbers to vote, Mr Trump told NBC.
In response to Romney’s claim that there was “a bombshell” in Trump’s unreleased past tax returns, Trump said, “There’s nothing”. “I don’t know what happened to him”, he said on Thursday.
“I think he probably still has a desire, maybe at the Convention to try and get some kind of thing”.
As expected, Trump caught wind of Romney’s comments, and chose to respond like only Donald Trump would.
The speech comes ahead of the Fox News Republican primary debate Thursday night at 9 p.m. ET in Detroit, the candidates’ first showdown since Super Tuesday.
Romney has been a fierce critic of Trump, and he warned in his speech on Thursday that his policies are a “threat to the Republican party and to the country as a whole”.
Most of Romney’s approximately 20-minute address focused on Trump, the odds-on favorite to win the GOP nomination.
Using a pet phrase that he often used on rival Marco Rubio, Trump lashed out at Romney as “a choke artist”.
Just four years before making severe immigration restrictions the centerpiece of his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump suggested that hostility toward illegal immigrants partially cost Romney the presidency.
“I share the concerns about Donald Trump that my friend and former Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, described in his speech today”, McCain said in a statement.
Trump has a lead in delegates and Bonner strongly believes he’ll be able to secure the nomination outright.
Rubio, who is banking on winning his home state of Florida on March 15, went after the Republican frontrunner for selling products made in China and Mexico.
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The Associated Press has asked Republican governors and senators if they would support Trump if he becomes the party’s nominee.
