But surveys show Republicans favoring Trump in those states and pulling close to Cruz in Texas. But that may well change Thursday night, in the ninth GOP debate of the presidential campaign.
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Appearing at the same town hall, Cruz said Trump has a lot of momentum right now.
Ben Carson opens: “Our nation is heading off the abyss of destruction”. “You’ve had nothing but problems with your credit cards, etc”. If past debates are any indication, Rubio and Cruz will expend more energy going after each other than taking on Trump. “Selling watches in Manhattan”, Rubio suggested. The door is open for Donald Trump to become the leader of a political party that doesn’t want him to win. “He was firing Dennis Rodman on ‘Celebrity Apprentice‘”.
With only days to go until voters head to the polls for the “SEC Primary”, the new WABE 90.1 Georgia Primary Poll finds Donald Trump with a sizeable lead over his GOP rivals. He said Trump should ignore his opponents and focus on the key planks in his platform – a border wall to keep out illegal immigrants, a stronger military, defeating Islamic State and fair trade. Cruz has also seen more success than Trump with late-deciders, though slightly less than Rubio. “I mean, you know, we need a president we can trust”, Cruz said.
Carson on how he would pick a Supreme Court nominee: “The fruit salad of their life is what I will look at”. The Florida senator repeated himself several times in a New Hampshire debate less than three weeks ago, triggering what he now calls “the New Hampshire disappointment”.
“He says five things: everyone is dumb, he’s going to make America great again, win, win, win, he’s rising at the polls, lines around the state”, he said to another round of applause and laughter. He told Geary that attacks from Trump and Rubio are having an impact.
Marco Rubio was on fire Thursday night.
Trump has predicted he will face off with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential contender, in November’s national election to replace President Barack Obama, whose eight-year tenure in the White House ends in January. “You sit down in a back room with the parties and work this out”. “Hope he doesn’t try to eat me”, Cruz tweeted. “You’re the basket case”.
But with Bush now out of the race, Trump is looking for space to fill in his stump speech, which previously included multiple references to Bush’s “weak” nature – an effective foil for Trump’s brashness on the campaign trail.
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Trump later added, “I’d like to really win in Texas”.
