Donald Trump appears to call turban a ‘hat’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says his supporters are so loyal they would stick with him even if he stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot somebody.

Trump, the NY billionaire and former reality TV star who has been virtually impervious to attacks from his opponents, pushed the limits of his political rhetoric again in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Ted Cruz claimed Saturday that Donald Trump still supports “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants, arguing that Trump’s planned deportations were merely an end-around to grant citizenship to those in the US who are here illegally.

Beck is among almost two dozen conservative thinkers who penned anti-Trump essays for National Review magazine. Trump and Cruz, Trump’s chief obstacle to a victory in Iowa, held competing rallies across the state while in New Hampshire, other candidates battled for votes in that state’s February 9 first-in-the-nation primary for the November 8 election. Cruz is on top of the race in the key state of Iowa with the caucuses just days away.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was the third with 9.7 percent, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was the choice of 9.2 percent of those surveyed and Florida Senator Marco Rubio received 7.2 percent support. Mr Trump is 69 and is unlikely to have had positions on abortion and healthcare as a child. “I will let Donald speak for himself”, Cruz says. I’m in a little auditorium in Pella at a college campus, so if gets noisy, that’s what it is but hello.

“I’ve said many, many times, the biggest divide we’ve got in this country politically, it’s not between Democrats and Republicans, it’s between career politicians and Washington in both parties and the American people”, Cruz said.

Having angered veterans with his quip at Mr McCain’s expense, Mr Trump caused outrage when he mocked a disabled newspaper reporter, Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition.

“And I wouldn’t even complain because he was born in Canada”, Trump said. “But I will tell you this – those guys aren’t going to win Iowa”. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit. “That is why I am endorsing Senator Ted Cruz as the next President of the United States of America”.

Stay on topic – This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand.

I am not voting for Mr. Kasich, but I would look forward to an informative and mannerly discussion of the differences in party policy and philosophy. We’re hearing from his aides at every event. Right now, we’re going to focus on the Republicans.