Republican insiders are warming to Donald Trump – especially after such mainstream candidates as Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have failed to resonate with voters – and particularly because they see him as a viable alternative to Ted Cruz. “There was tremendous press and I think it’s something that’s very important to discuss – not even for her son, but for so many other sons and daughters that are coming back from the Middle East, where they have, you know, traumatic problems”.
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Dismissing Cruz’s recent line of attack that he has accepted the embrace of the establishment — “Give me a break”, he scoffed — Trump highlighted the comments earlier this week by former Kansas Sen.
The Trump campaign said that the attack ad will run in Iowa, New Hampshire, and SC.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles as he speaks during a campaign rally on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Las Vegas.
“If I am the nominee, we will beat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for that matter, we can not lose this election”, Rubio said.
“We have a right to be angry and upset about the direction of our country”, said Rubio. “I think they’ve determined that they don’t think he can win”, Cruz explained.
Palin described Trump as the presidential candidate who will help the USA troops defeat the ISIS and help return America to its past glory, BBC News reports.
“Ronald Reagan would get along with Tip O’Neill, and they would sit down, and make great deals for everybody”, Trump said.
Cruz also hit Trump for criticizing Mitt Romney’s tone on the illegal-immigration issue during the 2012 Republican presidential nominee’s race against President Barack Obama.
Sarah Palin on Wednesday spoke of the damaging toll a 2008 combat deployment in Iraq had on her son, Track, who was arrested and charged in a domestic violence incident on Monday night.
She endorsed Trump on Tuesday, declaring in a rambling speech that if he were elected president, there would be “no more pussyfooting around!” “You gotta know what you’re going to do about it”. Believe me, don’t worry.
Calling Bush “a lost soul”, Trump mocked the lavish spending by his campaign and the political committees supporting him – pointing to Bush’s stubborn position in the low single digits in the polls. Ted Cruz – but he took plenty of shots at both of them on Thursday.
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If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the fuse.
