Weak GOP Rivals Fail to Condemn Donald Trump and His Thugs

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The most civil Republican debate broke out just as violence and disorder were breaking out on the campaign.

“So far I cannot believe how civil it’s been up here!” Donald Trump said Thursday night, looking out from the stage of the Republican debate in Miami, Florida.

Trump had hardly raised his voice beyond a whisper, he hadn’t boasted about his sizable appendage down south, and nobody had called him a con artist or the dean of a phony university.

This, despite the fact that the Florida and Ohio primaries are just six days away, making Thursday night’s debate the last opportunity for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Trump’s central opponents, to tear him down in front of an audience of millions before votes are cast.
It was the debate that dealt with everything calmly—including the issue of violence.
And what a shame.

Because more than at any other time in his nine-month campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the word civil does not apply to Trump or his operation this week.

The lack of civility began Tuesday night in Jupiter, Florida.

Trump had just delivered a victory speech at the Trump National Golf Club after winning primaries in Michigan and Mississippi. He descended from the stage to answer questions from the press, but when he got to Michelle Fields, a journalist for Breitbart, his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, violently grabbed her by the arm and yanked her out of the way, bruising her, according to a Washington Post report and Fields’s own account of the incident, which included a photo of the injury.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/11/gop-rivals-fail-to-condemn-trump-s-thugs.html

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1. This is another example of why the GOP is in trouble. nt