Donald Trump on Jeb Bush, ‘dumb as a rock’

The senator said that Rubio’s campaign is in trouble because he supported immigration reform with the overall legislation – “conservatives are uniting behind our campaign” – and that since Washington insiders “can’t defend what he did, they’re trying to say that everybody else did it, too”. He was at 18 percent in the November poll.

Compared to the last Fox poll, taken in the wake of the Paris terrorism attacks, Trump has surged 11 points. Even after his debate performance, some supporters noted that while he had held his own with Mr Trump, he had stumbled in his opening and closing statements – moments that should have been easy, uninterrupted chances to make his pitch. This subject was brought up in the debate, and Trump said this was not a matter of religion but of national security. Sen. They reflect conventional wisdom and perhaps wishful thinking among Sunshine State political elites who used to be far more bullish about Bush’s prospects.

Donald Trump is at it again.

The jump in support for Cruz also follows the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night during which Cruz sparred with Rubio, a fellow US senator, aiming to position himself as the clear alternative if Trump, who has been leading polls since the summer, should falter.

CNN reported the winners were Bush, Donald Trump, Sen. But as Bush engaged repeatedly with Trump in Tuesday’s debate, Kasich largely avoided taking on the real estate mogul.

Campaigning in New Hampshire, Bush is calling Trump a “jerk”, saying he “has no clue” on foreign policy and whacking him for lacking intellectual curiosity.

The Republican presidential debate here was actually a three-part contest: pop quiz, cage match and actual policy debate. Bush said, referencing Trump’s garbled answer on modernizing the nuclear triad.

Of Vladimir Putin, Bush said, “he will respect strength, not a clown show”.

The survey, fielded Wednesday and Thursday, largely syncs with other recent national surveys, showing Trump with a large double-digit lead over Cruz and the rest of the field lagging behind that quartet. Marco Rubio, Gov. Chris Christie and Sen.

Senator Marco Rubio made a big bet on an immigration overhaul that failed – and he has been running away from it since. And he’s casting his decision to go after Trump, in part, as a move to save the Republican party.

The outburst came after a man who said he had Asperger’s Syndrome asked the former Florida governor how he would help people with disabilities as president.

“A guy like that should not be the front-running candidate of our great party”. The surging presidential contender, in a new television ad released by his campaign Friday evening, shows Iowa voters a 2013 black-and-white photograph of a laughing Rubio standing alongside two prominent Senate Democrats. Radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump what his priority would be among aging nuclear forces, and Hewitt named the components of the triad: B-52s, missiles and submarines.