HOUSTON (AP) — The GOP presidential candidates barreled into the final stretch to Super Tuesday after a name-calling, insult-trading, finger-pointing final debate in which Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz engaged in a tag-team attack intended to take down front-runner Donald Trump before it's too late.
"I've dealt with tougher," Trump sniffed after taking incoming for two-plus hours Thursday night. He said he knew the attacks were coming because "they're desperate. They're losing by massive amounts."
It was bound to happen sooner or later — former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney regrettably waded into the treacherous currents of the 2016 presidential campaign by admonishing likely Republican nominee Donald Trump over tax disclosure.
The Romney-Trump relationship, seemingly like many relationships involving Trump-The-Candidate, combines the political and personal and is fraught with, and usually followed by, patronizing scorn by Trump.
