Screenshot/YouTubeHe went on to say he understood the anger felt by the national electorate – anger that has led to Trump’s rise within the party.
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The tirade was in response to a speech by Romney who launched a savage attack on Mr Trump’s credibility.
“Here’s what I know”, the excerpt reads. “His bankruptcies have crushed small businesses and the men and women who worked for them”. He encouraged the electorate to consider any of the party’s other candidates, including Florida Sen.
Haley has endorsed Marco Rubio, a USA senator from Florida, for the Republican nomination. He then said any of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich should be the Republican nominee.
The public bickering within the Republican Party was forcing loyalists to choose sides between their past nominee and the leading candidate to be their next one.
At an event at the State House Thursday, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker took questions from the media, all of them about Romney and Trump. He has zero influence with the sort of people who support Donald Trump.
“I respected Romney, but I think this hurts his credibility”, Vafiades said. Trump had dismissed McCain’s war-hero status for his long imprisonment during the Vietnam war. “His imagination must not be married to real power”.
Mitt Romney shakes hands with audience following speech.
Watch how he responds to my speech today.
“I’m not interested in talking about this”. Yes, Romney was a little late to the anti-Trump party, but late is better than never. He railed against Trump on a wide range of topics, including his healthcare and tax plans and, perhaps most importantly, his business acumen. And in what Trump must consider the ultimate put-down, he proclaimed that he has made “so much more money than Mitt”.
He called on Trump to also ask The New York Times to release the recording of an off-the-record conversation he had with the newspaper’s editorial board. How about Trump University? “He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat”, he said.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, will deliver a speech at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum at 11:30 a.m. EST.
The Romney speech is certain to come up when the Republican candidates face off in a prime-time debate on Thursday night. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president.
Romney offered a litany of pejorative descriptions of Trump, painting him as greedy, dishonest, vulgar, reckless, bullying and misogynistic, with policies that would prompt a recession and spook allies. Romney concluded, “A business genius he is not”.
Other experts who signed the letter are Frances Townsend, former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush; Eliot Cohen, former counselor to the State Department; and Dov Zakheim, former Pentagon comptroller.
Trump, 69, steamed towards capturing the Republican nomination in his bid for the White House during the biggest day of state-by-state primary voting.
“Why can’t the leaders of the Republican Party see that I am bringing in new voters by the millions – we are creating a larger, stronger party!” “Establishment wants to kill this movement!”
“I am the only one who can beat Hillary Clinton. But polls are also saying that he will lose to Hillary Clinton”, said Romney.
Trump noted that Romney had badly sought Trump’s backing when he ran in 2012.
Romney said later he would not have accepted Trump’s endorsement four years ago if Trump had spoken as he does now.
Trump countered Romney’s prepared remarks in a Thursday phone interview on NBC’s “Today,” saying Romney “begged” for his endorsement in 2012.
“I know Mitt feels strongly about this election, and he’s going to speak his mind”, Ryan said on “Fox and Friends”, declining to personally criticize Trump. Hundreds of students and community leaders lined up two-and-a-half hours early to the former MA governor at the University of Utah.
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Trump is coming under increasing pressure from his party as he fights for the majority of delegates needed to win the nomination.
