U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump on Monday told supporters he wanted to be “unpredictable” in a speech for supporters in New Hampshire, while competitor Jeb Bush said he wanted a chance to debate Trump one-on-one.
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The grand jury had been meeting several times a week since mid-October to hear evidence and testimony about the shooting. The Airsoft replica of a.45-caliber semiautomatic handgun usually has an orange tip on it, but Rice’s gun did not.
Bush’s dismissal of Trump’s candidacy came as Trump continued to unleash on the former Florida governor, telling a SC crowd on Wednesday that Bush is languishing in the polls despite a massive campaign chest.
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“I sold them to the white slavers that take these things, and…” he added with a laugh, leaving the sentence incomplete.
The campaign also announced changes to it’s TV ad buys by removing $3 million in scheduled ad buys and focus on voter contact instead. “You probably saw I’m going to spend now – going to start spending a lot of money because I don’t want to take any chances”.
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He said Saudi Arabia had increased its military and security spending in 2015 by about 20 billion riyals because of the conflict. The decision comes on the heels of a dramatic drop in oil prices over the last 18 months that have hit its oil revenues hard.
Speaking about the viability of his own campaign, Bush downplayed expectations that he must win early contests.
Audio clip: Listen to audio clip. The fighters can square off one on one or declare truces, with two of them ganging up to try to oust another. Referencing the businessman’s potential to divide large swaths of the country, Bush argued a Trump White House would be no different than the current occupant. “And the job of a president – or a candidate, for that matter – isn’t to scare more”.
“He’s not a war hero”, Trump said.
Back in October, Mike Murphy, the political Svengali helming Right to Rise, told Bloomberg Politics’s Sasha Issenberg that he considered Trump “a false zombie front-runner” and therefore not a real threat.
In a recent Quinnipiac poll, more than half of voters nationally said Trump doesn’t have a good chance of winning, and half of all Americans said they’d be embarrassed to have Trump as their president (35 percent said they’d be embarrassed to have Clinton as their president).
According to the Politico, Bush said his plans for combating ISIL would be starkly different from Obama’s, which he described as “incremental” earlier in the month.
Both Trump and Bush are campaigning in SC on Wednesday.
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The “lessons” from the United States venture in Iraq, Bush said, include the need for “iron-clad” intelligence and “a strategy for security and stability, and an exit strategy”.
