With Trump Absent, Cruz And Rubio Fight For Center Stage

“The entire lead up to this debate was talking about whether Donald Trump is going to show up for the next debate”. For Republicans, a bigger participation of evangelical voters could mean a far tighter race.

“Let’s address the elephant not in the room tonight”. But ratings experts said Trump did appear to take a chunk out of Fox’s audience. “I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly”. And Ben, you are a awful surgeon.

The 2016 presidential contenders are begging their Iowa supporters to get to the caucuses Monday and Donald Trump, true to form, is in-your-face about it. “By now they’re all tuned in”, he said of viewership. Marco Rubio. He comes in third now with 15 percent, but he pops in the second-choice question. “I think there was somebody missing”. I actually had a little bit more time than usual.

“Look at all the cameras”. He said that that a vote for Rubio is a vote for amnesty and a vote for Trump is a vote for ObamaCare to make it socialized medicine.

Cruz has been making his final pitches throughout Iowa while counting down the hours to caucus night.

Trump’s use of the term – which describes children born on USA soil to parents who are in the country illegally and is widely considered to be derogatory – marks the latest escalation of his attacks against Cruz in which he highlights the Texas senator’s Canadian birthplace.

“You don’t get 30 seconds to respond to me”, Wallace said. Ted Cruz showed off his fundraising haul, while most presidential competitors in both parties hustled through the state in a last-minute scramble to win over fence-sitters before Monday’s crucial caucuses.

“What happens is they’re in Mexico, they’re going to have a baby, they move over here for a couple of days, they have the baby – [the lawyers are] saying it’s not going to hold up in court”, Trump said in August, claiming again that children born in the U.S.to undocumented immigrants are not citizens. “I will apologize to nobody for using every tool we can to encourage Iowa voters to come out and vote”, he said.

Some background: In that first GOP presidential debate, Kelly pointedly questioned Trump on his record, in particular, with women, repeating several offensive comments he’s made about women over the years.

“I guess I’m part of the establishment because Barbara Bush is my mom. And because I have clients who are willing to pay the premium that it takes to do it this way, I’ve not had to cut corners”. But this election is not about our pedigree.

Cruz’s campaign, meanwhile, is built on a lie that he is the only conservative running for president, Rubio said.