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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Despondent’ Republicans watch in horror as voters continue to back Trump and Cruz
With two weeks to go until the first contest of the 2016 presidential race, Republicans who fear their party has been hijacked by the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz found little to comfort them in the latest debate.
Both candidates, one a billionaire developer with no political experience and the other a U.S. Senator from Texas with a reputation for clashing with his Washington D.C. colleagues, stood center stage Thursday night and, for the most part, dominated the proceedings.
More mainstream hopefuls such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida were left nipping at their heels and squabbling among themselves.
Trump, 69, and Cruz, 45, whom opinion polls have locked in a tight struggle to win the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, clashed at several points, befitting their leading-men status. The left little room for rivals trying to hurriedly close the gap before voting begins for real to choose the partys nominee for Novembers general election.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/despondent-republicans-watch-in-horror-as-voters-continue-to-back-trump-and-cruz/
djean111
(14,255 posts)Just a feeling.
Nay
(12,051 posts)to vote for. Sucks to be you.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)Vinca
(50,302 posts)What do they expect? If you plant hate and stupidity, that's what you reap.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)when you let ever increasing crazy into your party. This started with the Southern Strategy and moved on from there.
ProfessorGAC
(65,141 posts). . .thought to be the lunatic fringe, only a couple decades ago, to take over the party.
Now, look.