Florida’s Rubio jabs Republican leaders: Anger not enough

Cruz also aggressively ridiculed Trump’s obsession with the latest opinion surveys, saying that Trump’s attacks on Twitter come because he is “dismayed” about a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing a competitive race. “Experience is actually a negative in this election”, Santorum argued.

With characteristic bravado, Trump dubbed himself the victor on Friday. But the poll numbers have.

The answer to that question won’t be known until Iowans have voted.

Acknowledging that a torrent of change, technological advances and economic dislocation has left many Americans fearful of the future and anxious as social structures that have underpinned the life of the nation for decades fray, Obama urged them not to fall prey to the periodic temptation that has emerged throughout history to alienate minorities and resist social change. There are several dynamics in play. “I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than New York”, Trump said. And he did precisely the same thing during the discussion when Donald Trump raked up the question of his eligibility for President. Trump pointed out the clip was from 1999. On some days, he received more than 50 percent of the mentions – suggesting that he was covered more than all of his competitors combined. Specifically, Democratic National Convention would be held between July 25 – 28 in Philadelphia, while the Republican National Convention comes up from July 18 – 21 in the state of Ohio. Weaver dismissed the media’s dismissal of his candidate’s solid debate performance last Thursday.

And he laid out issues that Cruz said attested to the validity of his conservative stripes, among them how he fought hard against the Obama administration’s gun-control proposal after the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.; funding for Planned Parenthood and efforts to erode the sanctity of marriage; and Obama’s economic stimulus package passed during the Great Recession. “If we don’t have strong borders, we have a problem”. “I give him a 60 percent shot of being the G.O.P. nominee”.

“And I’ll tell you what, Donald, you very kindly just a moment ago offered me the VP slot”, Cruz said.

“I you look at these other places, he’s not doing well, and certainly not doing well nationally”, Trump added. “It’s one thing to take on the establishment… when you’re in front of the establishment” and not a group of grassroots conservatives and Tea Party supporters.

None of this means Trump can’t win.

When asked if he thought Cruz was a hypocrite, Trump quickly agreed.

Trying to stay close behind, Rubio jabbed Trump and Cruz repeatedly as he campaigned across Iowa this past weekend, warning voters they “can’t just elect any Republican”. Maybe Trump will, like then-Sen.

“To be honest, I don’t know what Donald’s position is”, Cruz said. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air.

The prisoner swap was made public shortly before it was announced that Iran had met conditions set forth as part of the landmark nuclear deal that will also lift worldwide financial sanctions that had strangled the Iranian economy.

For Trump, Levin’s criticism was a rebuke from a wing of the Republican Party he needs in order to capture the Iowa caucuses, while Cruz’s comments represent his harshest attacks against a rival he once promised to “smother with love”.

It’s a risky strategy at best, and party officials are hoping that weaker candidates will drop out before the SC primary that follows New Hampshire, allowing voters to more easily coalesce behind an alternative to the billionaire real estate mogul and the Texas senator.