Why Trump Survived Every Attack from Rubio and Cruz

Newsweek ^ | 2/25/16 | Matthew Cooper

[Vision Thing]

"If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where [Donald] Trump would be? Selling watches in Manhattan."

It was Marco Rubio's big moment, the one that was supposed to damage the GOP front-runner. It wasn't a bad line. The zinger illuminated that Trump wasn't self-made. It made him seem like the avatar of New York's worst values--a street hustler from pre-Giuliani Times Square.

Rubio's riposte got a laugh, but that was it. But he administered his blow too quickly, after a dizzying oppo dump of Trumpian facts--bankruptcies, lawsuits against Trump University, hiring illegal workers and so on. Like a hormonal teenager with control issues, Rubio blurted them out so quickly that the fusillade fell flat.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for your additional comments. I don’t have anything to add.

I see thing different, but at this point I’m not inclined to discuss it further.

I’m turning in.

[Vision Thing]

Aw, man: Carson and Kasich are left out of the fray.

[nopardons]

You are dead WRONG !

Only VETS can get the permit.

[Talisker]

Cruz or Rubio will get up on a debate stage with Hillary and it will be two lawyers debating what the definition of is is. She will slip n slide right past either one of them and straight into the oval office.

Donald Trump will give Hillary the ghetto beat down. He will say stuff to her face on TV that Teddy would never dream of. Trump will tell her she belongs in prison. He will launch a Twitter campaign and kill her with death by a thousand cuts. Its the only way to win.

THAT.

[D-fendr]

Thanks for the discussion. I appreciate your courtesy very much.

I’m off to bed as well.

May God bless us both. :)

[Vision Thing]

Yes, Marco got so much of Trump’s biography wrong in that attack.

[DoughtyOne]

I support that fully.

Thank you too, and good night.

[Dagnabitt]

Rubio comes across well at times. Too bad he is an enemy of our homeland who stood with Chuck Schumer trying to shove the largest amnesty in history down our throats. Rubio would be Obama's third term as far as borders and immigration are concerned. Actually the sweaty boy from Miami would be far worse, because he would turn Obama's temporary executive actions into permanent law, courtesy of his fellow cheap labor whores in Congress.

I cannot imagine hating country enough to actually want Rubio to be President.

[Vision Thing]

I imagine GG2 dropped the mic and walked off the stage with that post. :)

[Lauren BaRecall]

I see the Donald as more of a potential squeegee man, than a watch salesman.

[nopardons]

I've seen that video and YOU are a damned LIAR !

Crazy Glenn was rambling on, when some one listening to him saw Trump enter where they all were and a HUGE scream of TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP went up. The crowd around Glenn all turned around and began running towards Trump.

And after a bit, dear old CRAZY Glenn shuffled off the stage.

[Talisker]

I imagine GG2 dropped the mic and walked off the stage with that post. :)

Yep, especially since she and I have gone the full 12 rounds more than once.

[nopardons]

Your projection complex has grown worse. Please seek help.

[sargon]

The media will unload on Trump if he's the nominee— doing the Romney "rich guy" game, talking about the fraudulent Trump University, reminding Donald of his donations to the Clinton Foundation (which put him in a parallel position on this issue to where Romney was on Obamacare), and so many other things. They'll dig up Carly's face, Ben's a child molester, and so much else.

Let them. They've already tried and failed, and they'll fail again. Trump doesn't fear the media, and the American People don't fear the media.

Are you really trying to imply that the American People should make their Presidential choice based on fear of what the media will do in their all-out attempt to destroy Trump?

And, unlike the media, who will ignore Hillary's crimes, Donald Trump will consistently remind the American People of them. The Clinton foundation and its criminal foreign influence peddling, intentional use of private email servers to avoid transparency and accountability, coupled with incompetent and criminally negligent handling of classified information on those insecure servers, even the Benghazi fiasco: Hillary will be crushed.

Trump has already pulled the teeth of the lamestream media. Talk about negatives: in the minds of American voters, the lamestream media is viewed even less favorably than politicians.

The harder they attack; the more transparently they are in tank for establishment Hillary; the more it will backfire on them.

Trump-haters really don't get what's happening. It's beyond their ken. There will be a lot of their heads exploding on election night.

[Vision Thing]

Well, Trump is kind of a goofy dancer, so I can see him twirling those advertising signs, a job which requires a strong hunger for attention. :)

One thing’s for sure, I cannot see him dressing up as the Lady Liberty/Statue of Liberty, advertising for some tax-filing company.

I never got why those tax-filing companies use Statue of Liberty mascots to attract attention: The last thing I think about when I need to file my taxes is Lady Liberty.

Anyways, Go Trump!

[Albion Wilde]

Trump was just trying to fit in with the ethnic variety onstage with him tonight.

[fortheDeclaration]

Reagan spoke in generalities and he was criticized for that as well.

Trump has the vision, he will put people around him to do the detail work.

[fortheDeclaration]

Hillary has no substance and she is hated by everyone!

[fortheDeclaration]

Congress will defund Obamacare and President Trump will sign it.

[fortheDeclaration]

Come back here on Tuesday and we can discuss what a bad night it was.

I suspect you will hiding somewhere when Trump has another great night!