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Why Trump Survived Every Attack from Rubio and Cruz
Newsweek ^ | 2/25/16 | Matthew Cooper

Posted on 02/25/2016 9:27:48 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; 2016election; bothineligible; cruz; election2016; florida; marcorubio; newyork; rubio; tdsrichthread; tedcruz; texas; trump; trumpbashingpud
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To: Vision Thing

How was I knocking it?


61 posted on 02/25/2016 9:51:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: Jane Long

No, he didn’t.

Trump has lied about Cruz, for one, about Carson, about Rubio, about other candidates now departed. Donald Trump lies all the time. he’s the biggest liar I know.


62 posted on 02/25/2016 9:51:48 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Ha ha...is that you MarcoSoft Rubio? That’s all he could talk about, tonight....Google this, google that. I imagine his campaign paid the Google $$ to get certain stories to be the top hit.

Way to go, Marcosoft.


63 posted on 02/25/2016 9:52:38 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Jane Long
Food fight!


64 posted on 02/25/2016 9:52:39 PM PST by Salamander (I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
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To: Vision Thing

If America hadn’t welcomed Rubio’s parents in, it would be Rubio selling watches - to Russian tourists in Havana


65 posted on 02/25/2016 9:53:35 PM PST by blueplum
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To: scooby321

https://goo.gl/EvRn8M


66 posted on 02/25/2016 9:53:37 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Vision Thing

>>Like a hormonal teenager with control issues, Rubio blurted them out so quickly that the fusillade fell flat.<<


I wonder if he uses adult ADD medication. It might explain the mental crashes, the sweating, the very fast talk . . . the ability to memorize lines and deliver them like a firehose.


67 posted on 02/25/2016 9:53:38 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian (.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Trump’s dad died in 1999. By that time Donald was worth more than his old man.

So much for him inheriting all his wealth and just coasting.>>> from my recollection from his book he $1M and bought options on a property that panned out. i don’t know about the rest. I think he did pretty well. casino was easy money and i would have bailed out with chapter 11s the same way. i didn’t get $1M but id made the most of what my dad provided for me.


68 posted on 02/25/2016 9:53:58 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Vision Thing
I didn't see the debate, but I'm guessing the Tall Cool One stood out in stark contrast against the shrieking tag team of Crubio.

You got it. That's the way those two came across to many. He changed tactics tonight. He even waited until the crowd stopped making noises and applauding before he responded with retorts to Cruz and Rubio. The online polls even show a more pronounced win for Trump than usual.

69 posted on 02/25/2016 9:54:01 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: patq
"Selling watches in Manhattan."

They would be more real work than the Cuban anchor baby has ever done. It will be very satisfying to see Marco lose big time in Florida.

There was a picture I saw here the other day showing Trump on some late-night show. The host asked Trump what would he would do if he failed or had to start all over again. Trump said he'd go into multi-level marketing and start working his butt off. The audience booed. In reply, Trump said that's why he's sitting up there and the boo-birds were sitting out there.

70 posted on 02/25/2016 9:54:06 PM PST by Vision Thing (Cruzperados, why don't you come to your senses?)
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To: Iscool

Not at all. They whacked Trump over and over — with substance. He just threw his same empty blather at them in reply.


71 posted on 02/25/2016 9:54:19 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

“While you’re googling Trump and the Polish immigrant workers, also google Trump’s curtrent DC hotel project. It’s being built by illegals.

Google Trump mob concrete.”

You’re as big a liar as Cruz. Two birds of a feather, you are.


72 posted on 02/25/2016 9:54:23 PM PST by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS L)
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To: TBP
Thanks I will.....the noose is tightening around Trump neck, he was very nervous and upset, drank a lot of water (think we need to send him a case of water? Just wish Cruz and Rubio had done this earlier.

Trump never touched either Cruz or Rubio on rebuttal. They had him just where needed to be and exposed him as the empty suit he really is, no substance, no plan and sounds like the Clintons.

Notice too, Trump will never speak to anyone eye to eye. Cruz and Rubio will look him in the eye and speak their piece. Not Trump, and I don't trust anyone who will not speak to me eye to eye. He just points those stubby fingers sideways at them. Eye to eye contact or not trustworthy.

Carson was just plan funny.....someone attack me! rofl

Does Trump have false teeth, he sure has some funny mouth movements as I have seen people with false teeth do.

73 posted on 02/25/2016 9:54:45 PM PST by annieokie
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To: flaglady47

Every bit of that is 100 percent true.

which, in Trump World, makes it a lie.


74 posted on 02/25/2016 9:55:07 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Gee, that’s funny....CRuz is the one who actually did scuttle up to Trump Towers to kiss Trump’s ring. CRuz has been on EVERY channel tonight telling whoppers about Trump, rather than touting his own strengths (imagine that). Me too Ted has had to piggyback on EVERYTHING Trump has said, on every policy position.

CRuz is the BIGGEST liar I know.


75 posted on 02/25/2016 9:55:12 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: MNJohnnie

Trump is a politician. There’s no sense claiming he isn’t.


76 posted on 02/25/2016 9:55:13 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: annieokie

Yes, that was a good line on Dr. Carson’s part.


77 posted on 02/25/2016 9:55:55 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: goldstategop

Glad to hear Trump treated it like it was no big deal. He always talks about how we will get tired of winning. Looks like he is getting bored of receiving attacks that draw no blood.


78 posted on 02/25/2016 9:56:22 PM PST by Vision Thing (Cruzperados, why don't you come to your senses?)
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To: TBP

There is no bad night for Trump. He always goes up in the polls after each debate. Get used to it, he is the blob and he will consume everything in his path. He creeps he leaps he slides and glides across the floor and through the door and all along the wall a splotch of glotch, beware of the blob....


79 posted on 02/25/2016 9:56:23 PM PST by HerrBlucher (Right is right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong in doing it.GKC)
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To: Vision Thing

Rubio lied and distorted the truth...and you are happy about that?


80 posted on 02/25/2016 9:56:31 PM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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