The growing feud marked a near-unprecedented scenario pitting the Republican Party’s most prominent leaders, past and present, against each other as Democrats begin to unite around Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump does not have half the character traits that Mitt Romney has to be commander in chief, but at least he’s prepared to throw the haymaker.
Trump on his hands and other body parts: “Look at those hands, are they small hands?”
Romney’s speech, an unheard-of attack by a former party candidate for the nation’s highest office, signaled a state of desperation inside the party establishment.
“His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader”, Romney declared. He called Trump “a phony” who is “playing the American public for suckers”, and a man whose “imagination must not be married to real power”.
Speaking to NBC on Friday, Romney said he will “do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don’t nominate Donald Trump”.
“It’s a mess on their side, they made their bed and now they’re sleeping in it and I don’t know what they’re going to do”, Barasky said.
To supporters at the Westin Portland Harborview hotel, Trump continued to emphasize that Romney should have beaten President Barack Obama in 2012, highlighting the former GOP nominee’s performance in the third 2012 debate and his remarks that 47 percent of the country pay no incomes taxes and believe they are entitled to government benefits.
He said it would be “defeatist” to support anyone but Rubio.
Rubio (44) pressed Trump on the foreign workers he has imported to work at his Palm Beach resort, jobs he said could go to Americans. “I have brought millions of people into the Republican Party, while the Dems are going down”. She is reviled by many conservatives. The loss, Trump charged, was “an embarrassment”.
The bad blood among the candidates flowed freely.
Rubio in recent days revived a decades-old old insult, mocking Trump for having relatively slight hands.
“I have to say this, he hit my hands, no one has ever hit my hands”, Trump said holding up both his hands.
Trump, with 10 state victories, leads the field with 329 delegates.
Cruz and Rubio certainly think so. That was an election that should have been won by the Republicans.
Romney also suggested an interesting strategy to voters who wish to stop Trump’s progression: Not to back their favored candidate, but whichever Trump opponent seemed most likely to win their state. There is no agreed-upon endgame at the Republican National Convention, so all of the candidates have an incentive to grab as many delegates for themselves as possible to maximize their own leverage.
John Kasich, 63, governor of OH, elected in 2010.
Republican presidential candidates, Sen.
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz levelled withering criticism at Donald Trump’s “flexible” policy positions and personal ethics in a Republican presidential debate Thursday in an attempt to derail the brash billionaire’s growing lead in the primaries.
John Shearer/Getty Images The dig at Donald’s digits stems from he 1980s, when current Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s Spy magazine referred to Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian”. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen.
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Super Tuesday’s results transformed the Republican race by forcing party elites to abandon their plan of clearing a path for Marco Rubio.
