“You can’t trust them”, he said.
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Trump then referenced Rubio’s criticism of his hands, saying: “Look at these hands”. “Why else would they go after him like that?” I guarantee you there is no problem.
Carson, a conservative who briefly led opinion polls among Republicans earlier in the campaign, said he did not “see a political path forward” after performing poorly in this week’s Super Tuesday nominating contests. Marco Rubio: “This little guy has lied so much about my record”. He said Trump “thinks the nuclear triad is a rock band from the 1980s”.
Mrs Clinton heads the race, and has in recent days started targeting Mr Trump in her speeches, instead of her fellow Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Because if the Republican presidential field doesn’t take him out after Thursday night’s debate in Detroit, it’s likely not going to happen.
Asked if he would do the same, Texas Senator Ted Cruz responded: “Yes, because I gave my word that I would”, referring to a pledge candidates signed past year to back the eventual victor of the race. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich looming on March 15, there is still a narrow path for his rivals.
When asked about a CNN report that Trump will raise outside money if he becomes the Republican nominee, Romney said, “it’s a form of hypocrisy that I think people will find shocking”.
Earlier on Thursday, Romney warned that Trump’s prospective nomination would “enable [Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s] victory”.
Rubio lamented that the debates have lacked substance “because perhaps Donald Trump has been perhaps the most vulgar, no I don’t perhaps, the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency in terms of how he’s carried out his candidacy”.
Late in the debate, the candidates were asked if they would support the party’s nominee in the general election. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.
The New York businessman was forced to explain a civil lawsuit involving the collapse of Trump University.
“The time came when Donald Trump’s outrage had reached such a level that I simply had to speak out”. “He’s trying to con people into giving them their vote just like he conned these people into giving him their money”.
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Cruz hits Trump for past support of politicians: “For 40 years, Donald has been part of the corruption you’re angry about”. There was plenty of policy, too, as Rubio and Cruz pressed Trump aggressively on his conservative credentials, his business practices and shifting policy positions.
