Trump, who has led the Republican race for months, remains in the lead in SC. “You know, all these young voters deciding to register on Saturday to go support Bernie Sanders?” But this marks the most forceful attempt by the Cruz to counter his opponent’s attacks. Tim Scott’s and Rep. Trey Gowdy’s nod, Rubio also has made it harder for his mentor, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to find a foothold going forward. The tweet came after Bush made a campaign stop at a SC gunmaker.
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Third, some candidates should appeal directly to the pro-establishment wing of the South Carolina Republican Party.
Debbie Ramsey, a retired federal government employee from Summerville, said she was “disappointed” by the abundant name-calling among the GOP candidates.
“Marco Rubio, who stood with me, he was with me when he had the meltdown, and I’m telling you, it wasn’t a pretty sight”.
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have also shown an ability to connect with evangelical voters, however, each winning about 21% of the evangelical vote in the 2016 Iowa caucuses.
Trump, who holds a strong lead in SC, retorted that Cruz was a liar who is making desperate moves to inflate his campaign, which Trump said was “going up in flames”. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who have been biting at each other since last Saturday’s debate.
The angriest voice in the Republican race on Wednesday was not Mr Trump’s, but Mr Cruz’s. He added, “Donald Trump does not want to be under oath answering questions about his own record”.
Trump thought one way to fight back on the allegations thrown at him and it is to push through with a lawsuit against Ted Cruz.
Trump quote-tweeted Scavino’s tweet which claimed Coburn had called Cruz “one of the most dishonest people in D.C”.
Rubio is taking a similar tack in SC, accusing his Senate colleague of spreading falsehoods about his record on everything from same-sex marriage to immigration.
Cruz has previously rejected the accusation of lies leveled by Rubio and other opponents.
“You gave them a false hope, knowing that you couldn’t accomplish it, but it was about yelling, and screaming, and waving the flag”, Coburn said in October. “That’s the definition of it”, Rubio said Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
On his concerns with vetting Syrian refugees: “You can’t just call up 1-800-Syria and ask them, do you know so and so and do you know who they are and why they’re coming?” “He ends up having the baby and the baby is the apple of his eye”, said Trump in April of 2011.
“It is a curious thing”.
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The senator released a scathing new video Tuesday afternoon accusing Trump of “playing games with the sanctity of life” and having been “enthusiastically pro-abortion” for most of his adult life.
Cruz said he would depose Donald Trump himself and force him to tell the truth under oath.
Whether the elder Bush’s presence will help his 63-year-old brother in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday remains to be seen. Trump hasn’t just taken aim at his fellow White House contenders.
Bush’s campaign has argued the state lines up with Bush’s emphasis on military issues – he talked up his opposition to base closures in his remarks Wednesday – and has a longtime connection to his family.
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‘Strength is not empty rhetoric.
