Republican Presidential candidates Ted Cruz (right) and Donald Trump sparred during the Republican Presidential Debate in Detroit on Thursday. “I guarantee you, there’s no problem”, Trump said. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio interjected, cuing Cruz to quip, “I really hope that we don’t see yoga on this stage”.
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Trump has repeatedly said that he will bring back the use of waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse”, and that he would target the wives and children of suspected extremists.
“Sometimes he makes it a little bit hard”, said Kasich, 63.
“I’m someone who cares very deeply about the country and about my party, and I’ve watched from the sidelines a long time playing kind of a role as an umpire, calling foul balls now and then, but I just couldn’t sit back and say nothing as I watched Donald Trump be more and more outrageous, say bad things about George Bush, about John McCain, and positive things about Vladimir Putin”, he said. “I can not in good conscience vote for a person who has been as degrading, disruptive and unhinged as I’ve seen Donald Trump be”.
Trump’s remarks, likely unprecedented in a U.S. presidential debate, appeared as the nadir of a campaign season already notable for its provocative and assaulting tone. Party leaders are poring over complicated delegate math, outlining hazy scenarios for a contested national convention and even flirting with the idea of a third-party effort to derail Trump’s insurgent candidacy.
“Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud”, Romney said in Utah, as he urged voters to support one of the remaining candidates.
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Cruz and others have suggested that in the session Trump might have been more flexible on immigration than in public statements insisting he would build a wall between the United States and Mexico and deport 11 million illegal immigrants.
