Helps to keep ‘em confused. LOL! We did notice that ted tried to goad Trump in to some sort of verbal sparring match but this time Trump didn’t bite. I sorta expected the tone would be brought down from 11 to about 4 or 5. Time for rubio and kasich to end this. If it ends up Trump and hildebeast, then we’ll see the dirt bein’ slung in both directions.
Rubio knows he is finished after Florida, this debate was to prove that he isn’t a little kid. That he can be civil and hopefully for him, electable to another office. That is how I took Rubio’s performance. He wasn’t up there to destroy Trump because he was actually destroying himself more.
Trump did what he needed to do, look presidential, he deflected a couple blows from Cruz. Stayed on message and hit it out of the park by not stooping to Cruz’s level
Cruz, was trying to turn it back into a mud flinging contest but Trump wasn’t biting. Cruz seems to just ramble. Says a lot but accomplished nothing
Kasich Ohio must be the best place to live on the planet, I think I am going to cancel my vacation to Hawaii this year and go to Ohio instead
I noticed that Cruz did not want to depart from his preplanned statements, and it cost him on one exchange.
He kept hitting Trump over the supposed 45% tax on goods entering the United States from China, and saying that American consumers would be paying that tax. You could tell he thought he had a winning angle. Kept repeating it.
Finally Trump shut him down by reminding him that he would get the factories and jobs back in the United States like it should be and the people would not have to pay any tariffs.
Cruz was telegraphing that he would re-arrange the chairs on the decks of the Titanic only.
NBC? They are champing at the bit for a Clinton Trump contest. Why? Because they’re polling and metrics indicate Trump will fare poorly. There is so much opposition research and negative information they intend to weave and spin into the 24 hour news cycle that will knock our eyes out. There will come a point where Trump will become as attractive to the body politic as tertiary syphilis.
They sure baited the hooks, time and time again, but Cruz was the only one biting. He had his “Elmer Gantry” on again, last night.
Boy the TwitterTrumpHaters are just beside themselves that it was too “civil” and “let Trump off the hook.”
But here’s the thing: they tried dirty, kindergarten, name-calling attacks. Those didn’t work.
They tried “laying out their case” with logic, and evidence.
That didn’t work. So maybe, just maybe, Trump is saying something that resonates with people?
I know the media is pissed that Trump acted Presidential to.
Clearly Trump thinks he has this won and is kicking into Presidential mode.
His opponents will sound increasingly shrill and desperate by continuing to attack the “old” Trump.
YUGE win for Trump, again. The media tried to get the others to attack Trump but yet again Trump out smarted them with his rope a dope and came out looking like the next President - the other 3 were clearly flummoxed as well as the media.
I actually fell asleep watching it.
No red meat was served.
I thought Trump totally failed on Israel & Cuba.
Very clear....If you don’t attack Trump...he won’t attack back.
I think he has shown that he is leader in all these debates because he has set the tone of each and every one of them.
When it’s necessary for him to drive opponents up the wall, he’ll just say something to drive them there.
And when he said before last nights debate ‘it will be a smoother debate’ and it was.
Leadership.
Doesn’t matter what’s said. Doesn’t matter the environment. They all help Trump. People have their minds made up and these debates are pointless.