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The Hispanic attorney (29, Florida) ‘He has demonstrated that he is, at heart, a caring person’ On paper, I probably look like a guaranteed Cruz or Rubio vote. I’m a millennial woman, my parents immigrated from Castro’s Cuba, I work as a trial attorney in Miami and I’m a born-again Christian. But I’m voting for…
The 2012 GOP nominee’s advisers are examining what a fight at the convention might look like and what rules might need revising. “It sounds like the plan is to lock the convention,” said the source. Romney is focused on suppressing Trump’s delegate count to prevent him from accumulating the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure…
At the Fox News Republican presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump suggested that he has a large penis. This actually happened. During an exchange about the personal attacks Rubio has made on Trump, Rubio said that if any candidate “deserved” to be personally attacked, it was Trump because of how much he attacks others. Trump…
Today in New Jersey, Chris Christie held a press conference that appeared to mostly be a response to memes about the weirdo glass-eyed stare he had on his face during Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday press event. Speaking to reporters, Christie reiterated that he “wasn’t being held hostage” which is something that only someone currently being…
Last night, softball superstar and failed presidential candidate Chris Christie, took a break from his regular red-faced bloviating to stand idly by as Donald Trump screamed at us about nothing. Throughout Trump’s entire speech, Chris Christie looks, objectively, like he is praying for death. http://gawker.com/chris-christie… You know that feeling when your life choices catch up…
About 20 percent of likely Democratic voters say they would buck the party and vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTop Florida paper: Rubio best chance to unite GOP Trump releases healthcare plan Trump hits Romney for ‘desperate’ press conference MORE in a general election, according to a new poll. The willingness of some…
Height – 2667 | Width – 3556 Photo: Associated Press Donald Trump’s Trump University may become a problem for the presidential hopeful. Fourth Bruce: Gentlemen, I’d like to introduce a chap from pommie land … who’ll be joining us this year in the philosophy department of the University of Woolamaloo. All: G’day! Fourth Bruce:…
The Americans will have to decide what sort of person they want to put in the White House ©James Ferguson What is one to make of the rise of Donald Trump? It is natural to think of comparisons with populist demagogues past and present. It is natural, too, to ask why the Republican party might…
While he otherwise exhibits many of the traits of a stand-up comedian, laying into his rivals like an insult comic at a roast, Donald Trump’s inability to tolerate heckling, or even silent protest, has made the spectacle of critics being forcibly removed from his rallies a routine feature of his campaign. On Monday, though, the preemptive removal…
Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times; Video: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PALM BEACH, Fla. — Basking in the glow of his Super Tuesday primary victories, an ebullient Donald Trump made his final appearance of the day in an ornate ballroom in his oceanfront Palm Beach home and vowed that he would be “a great president…