ideas exxonmobil scientists are working on to make energy go further. .no matter how many tries it takes. energy lives here. donald trump is about 40% right now if you average it out. maybe 42 by his count. jeb bush who was supposed to be number one is at 3%. what happened? he was a little aggressive tonight. i think he i would probably be doing the same thing if i were him. he s a good man. you re acting like a winner tonight. you said you would run as a republican. no third party option.
know, trump turned out to be right, whether it was illegal immigration or so many other things, ted cruz was the one person that really backed me. he was with me. and i have to respect that. let me bring in national politics reporter for the washington post and msnbc analyst. robert, good morning. so it s interesting, because donald trump is really kind of speaking very highly of the guy who is in many ways nipping at his heels, and it s not really what we ve seen about trump when he sees other people coming toward him in the polls. reporter: it certainly is a unique situation in this republican race. it is also a test amount to cruz s long-term strategy as he seeks the nom natioination, slo siphoning off conservative support from donald trump, knowing that they both share the same views on many key issues. he also has to fight a two-front
i m guilty, one of the roaches. an epic battle between bush and trump. things got heated here. let s watch. donald is great at the one-liners. but he s a chaos candidate. and he would be a chaos president. jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in the campaign. it s been a total disaster. nobody cares. donald, you re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. that s not going to happen. and i do have the strength pop i thought it was very unfair that virtually the entire early portion of the debate was trump this, trump that. in order to get ratings, i guess. mr. trump, i was on cnn last night watching excuse me. i think it s very unprofessi unprofessional. it wasn t cnn. i watched you last night for 60 minutes. it s not cnn. it s not cnn. it s america watching you. okay, fine.