Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Republican Gov. John Kasich (Ohio) in places where they poll as Trump’s greatest adversary.
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Romney insisted that he meant to support one of the three non-Trump candidates remaining in the primary: Sen. Rubio had negotiated with other lawmakers on immigration policy. “The answer is, yes I will”, he said. “I’m changing. We need highly skilled people in this country”.
“Lying Ted”, Trump said under his breath into the microphone.
“I will support the Republican nominee”, Rubio said.
The bad blood among the candidates flowed freely.
On Trump: “For the previous year Donald Trump has basically mocked everybody with personal attacks”. He also asserted that Romney with planning to run again in 2016 before he “chickened out” because of “me”. “He was begging for my endorsement”.
It was a jaw-dropping moment in a campaign that’s been full of surprises from the beginning.
“I’ll breathe, I’ll breathe”, Trump said. I have a very strong core.
Kasich sought to turn Trump’s statement on the value of “flexibility” into a character question. Marco Rubio, whom the brash billionaire will face off against during a debate Thursday night.
Cruz then began to instruct Trump in breathing exercises. “They don’t want to talk about the West Side railroad yards where I built a city on west side of Manhattan – tremendous city on the west side of Manhattan”.
In it, clips play of her calling for more “love and kindness” and she also features a clip of her opponent, Bernie Sanders, saying people should come together and not let “the Donald Trumps of the world” divide them.
Trump shrugged, and claimed the lawsuit over the program was minor. “Give me a break”.
Both won seven primaries of the Democratic and Republican parties as the possibility of a November presidential election showdown between the two seems increasingly likely. Knowing he would be attacked, Trump warned voters ahead of time that his tone might have to be less-than-presidential. “And your’e not going to stop the corruption in Washington by supporting someone who has supported liberal Democrats for four decades”, Cruz said.
In a wide-ranging speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump hit back at Mitt Romney Thursday, criticizing him as a failed candidate who had “begged” for his endorsement in the 2012 presidential campaign.
The debate was the first without Ben Carson, who on Wednesday said he doesn’t see a path forward for his candidacy and that he would skip the gathering. So I would like to take that back. Other GOP figures believe Rubio is the better option – he went hard at Trump in the last debate, first deploying the “Trump is a fraud” line of attack – but Trump is leading him by double digits in Florida, Rubio’s home state.
Trump signaled he was ready for a truce.
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Trump suited their political purposes, which were never about a higher national discourse or even about real policy victories.
