Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney delved into why he chose this week to begin attacking 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump so forcefully, saying Friday on The Today Show that he “couldn’t stand silent anymore”.
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The Colorado senator eventually relented and said he would support the Republican candidate – though he insisted it would not be Trump.
In some of the bluntest criticism yet, Mitt Romney – who ran unsuccessfully against Barack Obama in 2012 – lambasted Trump as unfit to be president.
That was the last question at Thursday’s GOP debate in Detroit. “I guarantee you there’s no problem”, Trump said. “If Romney did decide to run, Clinton would destroy him”, Trump said, adding that he was targeting Romney from the start of the race because the Republican party could not withstand another election loss.
Donald Trump emphatically responded to attacks from Marco Rubio earlier in the campaign, in which Rubio had accused Trump of having “small hands”, and insinuated he must also have small genitalia.
This is the 11th debate for the Republican party candidates and Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich are running out of time if they want to take down front-runner Trump.
“Obviously, I’m going to disavow that”, he said. Would his rivals back him in November?
Perhaps one of the most talked about moments of the night, comments Marco Rubio made about the size of Trump’s hands.
Rubio accused Trump of being a “con man” who is unsafe and uninformed on foreign policy – harsh words for someone who says he would support in a few months as the nominee.
Trump held up his hands and said, “Look at my hands”.
Trump once again insisted that waterboarding and other torture methods should be used in interrogations.
“If they’re small, something else must be small”.
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Trump and Cruz also tangled in a heated exchange on nominating conservative Supreme Court justices, with Cruz repeatedly asking Trump to “breathe, breathe, breathe”.
