War of words for Donald Trump

“I’m risky?”, Trump said.

Those battles are likely to come to a head when the candidates meet in person Tuesday night for CNN’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.

“He’s been so nice to me”.

Rubio on Sunday said he continues to believe that Trump is not qualified to be president because of his level of “understanding on some of these critical issues before our country”, including foreign policy and national security.

The bombastic frontrunner, who has come under fire following comments he made about Muslims, said that the cordial relationship between them “will come to an end pretty soon”. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump ended this week, in a combination of leaked closed door barbs and poll numbers that show Cruz pulling within range of and even surpassing Trump in some polls.

“You look at the way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like frankly like a little bit of a maniac. Don’t trust Des Moines Register poll- biased towards Trump!” he wrote on Twitter, apparently intending to say the Iowa paper was biased against him. You’re never going to get things done that way.

He’ll never get anything done and that’s the problem with Ted.

When asked whether “those friends” supported the ban he called for last week, Trump said: “Not really”.

“Who is prepared to be a commander-in-chief?”

“Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button?”

“I just read where ISIS has gotten ahold of a passport- printing machine for the migrants to get them into the United States. But we have got to stop the problem”, he said in response to a question.

“My judgment is great”. I have some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world. “Tremendously big, number one bestsellers, including ‘The Art of the Deal, ‘ which may be the best in terms of business books”. “I don’t have people, you know, coming up and yelling about this other stuff”. “And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of them”, Cruz said, according to the audio posted by the Times. “And, you know, if that is the case, then, you know, I’m out of here”.

“They don’t back – we don’t back any of our allies”.

“One of the reasons I’m sitting here and one of the reasons I’m so high in the polls is because it all started with the borders”, Trump told CNN.

He predicted he’ll outlast Cruz “because I’m more capable”. I don’t recall anywhere near that movement in the 2000 GOP race (Bush won the Straw Poll and led through the Caucuses).

Trump touted his capability to get together with liberals and conservatives and stated that was the hallmark of the “world-class businessman” he’s.

He responded angrily to reports this week that party leaders have been discussing alternative ways of deciding the nomination process if Trump leads a divided field by the time of the national convention in Cleveland next July.