Donald Trump: The Trump train continued Thursday night, though it wasn’t his best performance.
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The candidates also spoke passionately about support for the Second Amendment, and foreign policy – where Trump stated the need to work with all countries instead of spending “trillions and trillions” against them.
There were moments of policy debate Thursday night, too, as Rubio and Cruz pressed Trump aggressively on his conservative credentials, his business practices and shifting policy positions.
Trump blasted his two remaining obstacles to the Republican nomination, Rubio and Ted Cruz, painting them as bought by special interests.
“There’s plenty of evidence Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake”, Romney said at a speech at the University of Utah on Thursday morning.
More than in recent contentious debates, the candidates shouted over each other and exchanged angry retorts that had Cruz at one point, while trying to stop Trump’s interruptions, saying, “Count to 10, Donald, count to 10”.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Marco Rubio listens as rival candidate Donald Trump speaks at the U.S. Republican presidential candidates debate in Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 2016.
With Donald Trump emerging as the undisputed frontrunner in the presidential nomination race, the Republican establishment mounted a concerted attack on the brash billionaire on and off stage only to have the tables turned on them.
The feud marked a near-unprecedented scenario pitting the Republican Party’s most prominent leaders, past and present, against each other as Democrats begin to unite around Hillary Clinton. That lead meant Trump’s biggest challengers – Cruz and Rubio – took off the gloves to go at the front runner.
This is the 11th debate for the Republican party candidates and Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich are running out of time if they want to take down front-runner Trump. And he referred to my hands if they are small, something else must be small.
Trump noted that Rubio had mocked his hands as small, widely viewed as an insult about Trump’s sexual prowess.
Mr Rubio excused his own attacks by essentially saying it was Mr Trump who first opened the flood gates.
Trump responded by calling Romney “a failed candidate.”
“I tell people if you had a lightweight like Rubio as president, he’s all controlled by the special interests, 100%. If I see episodes where conservatism is being disfigured, if I see comments that mislead the people as to who we are as Republicans, I’m going to speak out on those”, said Ryan. When Kelly posed her first question to him, Trump told her “you’re looking well”.
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And these people believe the narrative around the GOP race will be much different by July if Trump is trending down in states and delegates won rather than up.
