“Now maybe others will follow Christie’s lead and say ‘I can be a good Republican, I can be an establishment Republican, and still endorse Donald Trump, ‘” said Rider University Political Scientist Ben Dworkin. “I see him repeat himself every night. And I’ll tell you, Georgia is a key battleground”, Cruz said. “Not only do we have our own numbers, but I know my state”, he told Today Show hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie.
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“Donald Trump is a con artist – and he can not be our nominee.
And there is no one better prepared to provide America with the strong leadership that it needs both at home and around the world than Donald Trump”, said Christie, former Republican candidate who dropped his White House bid after a poor showing in New Hampshire.
As Greg Gutfeld of Fox News put it, “Christie may have eaten Rubio’s lunch, but Trump has been drinking Christie’s shake”.
Cruz and Marco Rubio have ratcheted up their attacks on the Republican frontrunner in recent weeks, as the prospect of Trump winning the nomination grows ever more likely.
Baker spokesman Tim Buckley said the MA governor had no advance warning of Christie’s endorsement of Trump, the brash NY businessman who is leading the GOP field.
Clearly, Donald Trump doesn’t need the donors – although it’s not clear why Christie picked Rubio to receive the list after wiping the floor with him during the February 6 debate.
If Trump were to clinch the nomination, Cruz believes the billionaire would “probably” lose to Clinton.
From the lectern, Trump showed off a water bottle, reminiscent of the one the Florida senator grabbed during his 2013 State of the Union response. If the person who is willing to stick his neck out to stop Trump defects to the anti-Trump side, who, exactly, do Republicans expect is going to stop him?
But they only dented Mr Trump’s momentum, according to opinion polls and online betting markets. “I think it’s a mistake”, said Dan Haggerty of Lawrenceville.
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Rubio then turned toward a more serious public policy issue as he compared Trump to Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
