The five remaining candidates – Trump, Rubio, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Ohio Governor John Kasich and Ben Carson – are due to face off during Super Tuesday primaries, on March 1, which will see 13 states pick their nominees for Republican candidate.
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Mr Christie, the New Jersey governor and former candidate for president, said he was “thrilled and proud to be on team Trump”.
But dribbled-out information was not what Marco Rubio had in mind Friday in reference to Donald Trump.
Trump fired back at Rubio during his rally in Fort Worth. “This is a low-life”, Trump said of Rubio, not leaving out Texas Sen.
“I think it provides a bit of legitimacy to the Trump campaign because here you’ve got an elected leader from a state that is very important in presidential politics”, said Furlong.
Florida Senator Rubio continued to assail Trump the morning after the debate, telling CBS that “a con artist is about to take over the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and we have to put a stop to it”. Rubio also gave a dramatic reading from the stage of Trump’s tweets mocking him. “That was their mistake in the beginning in attacking each other”, Eltife said.
According to a Public Policy Polling survey released Thursday night, Trump holds a 20-point lead over Rubio. “Thank God he has really large ears, the biggest ears I’ve ever seen, because they were protecting him”. (I wrote a piece about Trump’s vice presidential list earlier this week; Christie didn’t make the cut then but would now.) And, even if Christie doesn’t wind up as the VP pick, he’d likely be in line for a cabinet post – Attorney General? – in a Trump administration.
In a release created to prompt GOP front-runner Donald Trump to respond, Rubio’s campaign released five years of documents – though the campaign released only partial returns, omitting the detailed schedules and documents that would bring transparency into the couple’s income, charitable giving and tax strategies.
PHOTOS: Marco Rubio rally in Kennesaw.
Mr Rubio ridiculed Mr Trump for a series of misspelled tweets, which he later deleted. “Not only do we have our own numbers, but I know my state”, he told Today Show hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie.
“Rubio, total lightweight, and little mouth on him… bing bing bing”.
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On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton had SC mostly to herself a day before the first-in-the-South primary Saturday, and she’s using it to capitalize on her advantage over Vermont Sen.
