Romney, who was soundly defeated by President Barack Obama in his 2012 re-election, joins a growing chorus of anxious Republican leaders that many Trump supporters see as establishment figures.
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And Trump, who earlier in the race threatened an independent bid if he felt he was treated unfairly?
In an unusual move, Trump said from the stage in Detroit that he now wants an increase in visas for highly skilled foreign workers.
Donald Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination all say they will back him if he wins the race. “Look at those hands, are those small hands?” he said.
In reality, the joke about Trump’s hands started more than 25 years, when Graydon Carter began referring to Trump in the pages of the satirical Spy magazine as a “short-fingered vulgarian'”. “If they are small, something else must be small”.
Trump’s remarks, likely unprecedented in a U.S. presidential debate, appeared as the nadir of a campaign season already notable for its provocative and assaulting tone.
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, second from left, gestures as Sen.
Mr Rubio said Mr Trump deserved to be attacked because he had mocked others.
“I heard that Mitt Romney made a fairly long speech, ” Trump said, as the audience booed.
The Republican debate Thursday was yet another contentious affair, from name-calling to interruptions-interruptions which were particularly aggravating to Texas Sen.
In a blistering speech at the University of Utah, Romney described Trump as a “phony” and a “fraud” who will lead the Republicans to disaster. “Donald is not going to make America great, he’s going to make America orange”, Rubio said at a Sunday rally, hinting that the real estate mogul used spray tans. “I could have said, “Mitt, drop to your knees” – he would have dropped to his knees”, he said.
Trump countered with a mild effort at detente, saying he’d called Rubio a “lightweight” in the past, but “he’s really not that much of a lightweight”.
Trump was assailed on his positions on immigration, pressed by both the moderators and his rivals in the wake of a Buzzfeed report that he had told the New York Times in an off the record conversation he was willing to moderate some of his hard-line positions. Ted Cruz and just 2 percent for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. She’ll be moderating tonight’s event, and Trump can expect a tough line of questioning echoing the campaign’s first debate. Cruz instructed Trump to calm down, telling him to “Breathe, breathe…”
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The four squared off in Detroit Thursday, the smallest field yet for any of the Republican debates.
