Trump Falls Behind Ted Cruz in National Poll

“What you don’t know yet is if the change is going to take place or if it is a momentary “pause” before the numbers snap back into place”, McInturff said.

“Mr. Trump has sent me a cease and desist letter saying stop telling the voters my record”. “Like a freight train barreling through signals with his horn on full blast, Trump heads down the track towards a possible nomination”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. I don’t feel like, that he’s intimidating. They’re chopping off heads.

‘I understand that Americans are angry and frustrated, but we do not need someone in the Oval Office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration, ‘ said the former president. “I’m not sure there’s a political solution for that problem, but there are things we can do”.

“Waterboarding is fine, but it’s not almost tough enough”, he added. Be more like brother George, the former president. A 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded that harsh interrogation techniques failed to produce information the CIA couldn’t have obtained elsewhere or didn’t already have. But in a 20-minute speech, the elder Bush repeatedly alluded to the business mogul and former reality star whose insurgent candidacy has thrown the GOP race into turmoil, urging voters to choose a candidate who offers more than slogans and who can appeal across party lines in order to win the general election in November.

Trump responded by goading Cruz, saying that “time will tell, Teddy”, as he repeated his threat of lawsuits – over a Cruz campaign ad or over his eligibility for the presidency, given the Texas senator’s Canadian birth – off the table.

The second group – Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich -will participate in a CNN town hall forum on Thursday night in Columbia, S.C.

Rubio on Wednesday said going forward he’ll address audience members who use “outrageous, over-the-top and egregious” language during his events.

The 11th-hour endorsement still gives Haley time to appear on the stump with Rubio for the rest of the week as the GOP battle races to the finish line.

Nevertheless, his parents “never raised us to feel that we were victims”, Rubio said. Bernie Sanders. Saturday’s Nevada caucuses are next for them, with a SC primary on February 27.

But the debate over how to handle Trump comes just three days before the primary in SC, where Bush’s brother and father both won big victories in 2000 and 1998.

Republican U.S. presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump speaks at the Republican U.S. presidential candidates debate sponsored by CBS News and the Republican National Committee in Greenville, South Carolina February 13, 2016.