Trump went into the debate after spending the day in a heated war of words with the party’s 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney. The candidate embodies the “very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss”, Romney said.
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After a brief foray into policy, Thursday’s Fox News debate quickly shifted back into the sharp personal attacks the 2016 GOP campaign has become defined by. Cruz asked. He ultimately delivered more substance than Trump and Rubio, as measured by the use of policy keywords like “taxes”, “jobs”, “China”, and “Obamacare”. “He failed miserably and it was an embarrassment to everybody”, Trump said.
Kasich argued that he has the most broad appeal of the group.
“Can you imagine – 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 totally disavow this and you’re probably the 18th person who’s asked me the question”.
“You change your tune on so many things, and that has some people saying, ‘What is his core?'” Kelly told Trump.
“Well, let’s hear it, big Donald”, Rubio responded.
“Yes. I will”, he said. This is a civil case.
He labeled Trump part of the problem, not the solution, accusing him of being “someone who has used government power for private gain”.
“He has done so to people that are sitting on the stage today”, Rubio said.
Trump called Rubio a “con artist” for missing a lot of Senate votes.
Meanwhile, Trump is defending the size of his hand, which Rubio had mocked as small in what was viewed as an insult about Trump’s sexual prowess. And I have to say this, he hit my hands no one has ever hit my hands. The extraordinary criticism by the past two Republican presidential nominees represented the sharpest break within the party by the establishment wing of the candidate who appears to have locked this year’s White House nomination.
“I hate his total lack of understanding of complex issues that impact Americans”, Clinton, 68, said in her email yesterday”.
“Actually it was for business”, Trump replied. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the presidential primary debate in Detroit on Thursday.
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“Rubio will stay in the race, at least through Florida, hoping that anti-Trump voters coalesce behind him”, Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua, referring to the Florida senator who hopes to win his home state on the March 15 primaries.
