Via BuzzFeed, which Trump is Rubio talking about here?
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And it’s a awful, horrific and sad sign when your name is Jeb Bush and you can’t even lead the polls in Florida, where you served two terms as a popular governor.
“I know more about Syria than Marco Rubio knows about Syria”, he boasted.
However, Rubio has gained on Bush, and in some cases overtaken him in the polls since the second main-stage Republican presidential debate last week.
A new Fox News poll released yesterday also confirms the momentum, with Rubio tied for third place with Fiorina. The poll includes interviews with a random sample of 820 residents of New Hampshire, including 344 who say they plan to vote in the Republican presidential primary. On the whole, however, Rubio has declined to tumble in the mud with Trump.
He twice knocked the Florida senator’s spotty attendance record and called him a “lightweight” – a dig he’s also aimed at Rand Paul and Bobby Jindal – in pushing back against Rubio’s criticism that Trump has not delved into foreign policy specifics. “As candidates drop out and the field narrows, the poll results indicate that these votes will go to other candidates, and not to Trump”.
Rubio also is doing well matched up against Hillary Clinton and the other Democrats, especially in battlegrounds like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
“If there’s a debate tomorrow, Donald Trump is still front and center”, Trump executive vice president Michael Cohen told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.” “Somewhat conservative” Utahns say they prefer Bush over Trump by a 57-30% tally. Rubio said the US needs to first get illegal immigration under control and modernize the current legal immigration system, before dealing with the undocumented immigrants already living in the country.
Second, I did think that the CNN team led by Jake Tapper did make a good effort to be fair to the candidates.
Then at an event in South Carolina this week, Trump got personal, saying, “He’s overly ambitious, too young – and I have better hair than he does, right?” There’s only so much bluster and so many gratuitous insults most people can take, even if those who tend to agree with many of his stated goals.
Trump went on Wednesday evening and early Thursday to target Rubio and Carly Fiorina, both of whom have seen an uptick in support since their performances in the last week’s Republican debate. “He epitomizes, in my view, the American Dream”, said Davenport voter Jim Forsyth.
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“At some level, it is a risk to elect a person with no experience in government”, said J. Ann Selzer, president of West Des Moines-based Selzer & Co., which conducted the poll.
