immigration has been a strong issue and it probably propelled donald trump where he is today. why do you think you and jeb bush are both trailing behind him in your own home state. donald was a supporter of amnesty and the dream act. i don t think that s the issue that s driving. i m confident that those numbers will change. we are not going to be able to pass a comprehensive approach to the immigration problem. the votes weren t there after a migratory process on the border. part of that is a wall on key we also need e verify. and until you do that you won t be able to do anything else on immigration.
became richer by his work. at end of the day a lot more people relate to senator rubio and snort rubio basically can articulate a message that the vast blue-collar working democrat that many are supporting trump at this point who have become republicans. i think it is danger to beat him up. he is articulate guy. becoming a favorite of this party. to certain extent professional wrestling style of donald trump trashing everybody in the ring, is not going to work. martha: donald trump calls him underrated. he is sloppy with his finances essentially. the suggestion is that donald trump is not sloppy with his finances. going to be a financial debate on tuesday night, joe. how will that go? look, i think clearly we all need to welcome rubio to the, to the top tier of the gop. that is what this all means. that s why trump is going after him because he is rising right now. so i agree with ed, that it is a
in these primaries. you want their votes. people want donald trump s votes. i think he will be around through the whole thing. but, sooner or later, either he wants rubio s votes or carson s votes or they want his. so there is a logic to not going after somebody in a multicandidate field like this. often what happens is, you hit somebody hard, they don t voters don t go to the guy that swung and hit them, they go to other candidates. that happened to me and ed too in past campaigns. you re just sitting there and you re being attacked, but your voters are going somewhere else, they re not going to the guy that or person that attacked you. there is a logic to not doing it to trump. but trump seems, has sort of mastered, doing it to everybody else, without having any ill effect. we see him drifting down a
police were following proper procedure. insurance companies for the city and homeowner continue to fight over who will build and who will pay. back to politics now. jeb bush says he is just not going to take it lying down anymore. he is fired up. he is going after donald trump. trump tweeting that he thinks bush should drop out of the race. in facts he thinks all candidates should drop out of the race. the former florida governor says bluster won t cut it. people need a fixer. i will not win over punditry class for sure. i know i can win over people that aspire a better life for themselves and family. as it relates to donald, he run for president twice and quit. i have run for governor in the biggest swing state and won twice. martha: peggy noonan, columnist for wall street journal author, speechwriter. this is her ninth book. it s a treasure called, the
hillary clinton, he trounces her 10 points, by far widest margin of any republican candidate. donald trump in quinnepiac poll is only candidate loses to hillary clinton in head-to-head matchup. not only loses to hillary clinton in head-to-head matchup. he is only candidate that loses to bernie sanders. his favorability rate something very bad. hillary clinton has a net negative favorability of 10%. 10 points. he has a negative of 19 point. and he is almost the same as her when it comes to honest and trustworthy. 60% of the country believe hillary clinton is not honest or trustworthy. 58% says same thing about donald trump. he has a one point lead over ben carson, beneath the surface there are numbers troubling for him there is a lot here. i want to get your thoughts, mark, on dr. ben carson. a lot of people look at him, wonder frankly why he is doing as well as he is. they respect him.