“But the time came when Donald Trump’s outrage had reached such a level that I had to speak out”. Trump, he alleged, has been “personally offending not just everyone in the race but women and minorities and the disabled”.
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He warned that polls show Trump would likely lose to possible Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in November.
“Mitt is a failed candidate”. And in another sign of growing mainstream support, Cruz picked up five former national fundraisers for Jeb Bush, who to many embodied the Republican establishment.
“‘Flexible’ is Washington code word that he’s going to stick it to the people”, said Cruz, who holds second place in the number of Republican delegates collected so far on the way to the party’s nominating convention this summer.
During his 2012 presidential bid, Romney sought and welcomed an endorsement from Trump – the same man he on Thursday repeatedly insulted and called a “phony” and a “fraud”. “They could persuade Trump’s delegates to defect, but Trump and his people would cry bloody murder”. Rubio even went after Trump for plastic surgery, saying “he should sue whoever did that to his face”.
Super Tuesday’s results transformed the Republican race by forcing party elites to abandon their plan of clearing a path for Marco Rubio. “It would cause a revolt”, the senator from Texas told reporters in Maine.
The uprising, which uses the slogan #NeverTrump on social media to spread its message, considers Trump to be a threat to conservatism and the Republican Party. “It is proportional. Tonight, we will have more delegates than we had last night”. Trump, as his nature, has boasted about all the new voters his candidacy is attracting and that he could walk with them at any time to launch a third-party bid.
Romney also appeared Friday for an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, where he charged “I don’t think a lot of people know who the real Donald Trump is”.
“I would love to take on Ted one-on-one”, Trump said. I want Ted one-on-one, okay?
Earlier in the day, in an extraordinary display of Republican chaos, the party’s most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation. Hours later, his campaign released a statement backing away from the new position, deepening the sense that Trump’s agenda may be less strategic than improvisational.
“I’ll either vote for a conservative who runs or I’ll write in the name of a conservative…”
“I’ve supported Democrats and I’ve supported Republicans, and as a businessman I owed that to my company, to my family, to my workers, to everybody to get along”, he said.
Rubio fired back: “You ask him a question about the economy and the first thing he does is go into the “little guy” thing”, Rubio said.
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Rubio said Saturday that the upcoming schedule of primaries is better for his campaign and that the states voting Saturday “have a certain profile” that benefits “other candidates”.
