The Republican field is narrowing, with rumors that the next Fox News debate will be limited to candidates who can garner 3 percent or more in the polls. That leaves many on the outside looking in, and allows the frontrunners to pile on each other. So who came out swinging first?
You’ll never guess:
Donald Trump is hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend and will have a litany of impressions to practice. Yet, when the media asked him to give his best impersonation of his presidential opponent Jeb Bush at a press conference for his new book, “Crippling America: Make America Great Again,” Tuesday in New York, he refused to. He didn’t want to portray someone “sleeping at a podium.”
That was just his first burn.
Trump went on to criticize Ben Carson for his lack of energy and Marco Rubio for his weak stance on illegal immigration and awful history with credit cards. “Marco Rubio is overrated,” he said.
Candidates have so far refused to engage with Trump, and those who have often find themselves flailing, finding Trump supporters to be be die hard and unimpressed by the many familiar arguments against the real estate mogul’s candidacy. Candidates like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have risen in the polls, would do well to ignore Trump. But for candidates like Jeb Bush, it’s a different story. Although Trump’s critiques are often instantly dismissed as out of or over the line, they’ve found a way of seeping into the media narrative when it comes time to explain a candidate’s stagnant polling position.
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