Former US presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump as “a fraud” on Thursday and urged primary voters to keep the outspoken NY billionaire from getting the nomination, paving the way for possible horse trading at a party convention in July.
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DETROIT (AP) – Donald Trump replied to a dig from Republican presidential rival Marco Rubio about his sexual prowess with a crude sexual reference of his own at Thursday night’s GOP debate.
Cruz tweeted on Friday that his campaign website was selling the mats, following a Thursday debate between the four remaining Republican candidates, in which yoga took center stage.
Mainstream figures in the party are seeking a strategy to halt the real estate mogul’s march to the nomination for the November 8 election to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama.
The raucous debate capped a day that saw the Republican’s most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasting Trump, the current front-runner, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation, in an extraordinary show of intra-party chaos. He flirted with a 2016 campaign but ultimately decided the country needed fresh leaders. “You know what they say about men with small hands?” And he referred to my hands, if they’re small, something else has to be small. He said he had changed his mind to support allowing in more highly skilled workers from overseas, adding, “I’m changing”. Are they small hands?
At the start of the debate, in one of a number of unusual moments, Mr Trump defended the size of his hands and then alluded to another part of his anatomy.
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Trump on the torture debate and what he’d do: “Can you imagine these people, these animals over in the Middle East that chop off heads, sitting around talking and seeing that we’re having a hard problem with waterboarding?” “I guess obviously he wants to be relevant, he wants to be back in the game”. And neither Rubio nor Cruz wanted to give Trump any wiggle room on that question. Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, came out swinging against Trump this week.
