Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich will all be on the stage starting at 9 p.m. Thursday for the debate hosted by Fox News Channel.
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Dismissing his rivals as “lying Ted” and “little Marco”, Donald Trump fended off intense attacks from his fellow presidential hopefuls at a debate Thursday that comes amid deeps signs of divisions within the Republican Party.
“Even as Donald Trump has offered very few specific economic plans, what little he has said is enough to know that he would be very bad for American workers and for American families”, he added. I guarantee you there’s no problem.
Trump drew fire not only from his competitors, but also from the Fox News moderators, who confronted him with six separate prepared graphics and video clips challenging his positions on issues from drug pricing to Afghanistan.
“What a sad state of affairs”. They are the last two anti-Trump candidates standing in what has been a bruising nomination battle.
Check out Twitter’s funniest reactions below. “That’s more than the total that groups spent attacking him in the previous eight months since his campaign began”.
“Well, there’s no question I’m going to everything within the normal political bounds to make sure that we don’t nominate Donald Trump”, Romney replied.
Trump’s response: “I have a very strong core”. Kasich said. “People say, wherever I go: ‘You seem to be the adult on stage'”. They said he was a con artist, not a conservative, and knocked his failed businesses, campaign donations to Democrats, changing views, Trump University, lack of specific foreign policy prescriptions, and refusal to release a tape of an off-the-record interview with The New York Times’ editorial board. “But I’ve never seen a successful person who wasn’t flexible, who didn’t have a certain degree of flexibility”. “I said something one time to a guy that needs to be stood up to. You’re not going to stop the corruption and the cronyism by supporting someone who has used government power for private gain”.
Trump endorsed Romney for president when he was the GOP nominee in 2012.
“People don’t want a short-term job”, Mr Trump said.
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Trump, with 10 state victories, leads the field with 329 delegates. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.
