AFTER Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump claimed victory in seven of 11 states on Super Tuesday, several prominent public figures and news publications expressed that they do not believe Trump is fit for the presidency.
“The reality is that Trump has no experience whatsoever in government, interacting with the machinery of state only as a supplicant,” read an LA Times editorial published Wednesday, March 2. “He has shamefully little knowledge of the issues facing the country and the world, and a temperament utterly unsuited to do the job. He is a racist and a bully, a demagogue. He has proposed killing the families of terrorists, a violation of international law so blatant that a former CIA director predicted that U.S. troops would refuse to carry out such an order.”
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday, March 3, said during a speech he delivered at the Institute of Politics at the University of Utah that he believes America is poised to lead the world for another century.
But not if Trump becomes the Republican nominee.
“I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be a president. After all, this is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter, who attributed a reporter’s questions to her menstrual cycle, who mocked a brilliant rival who happened to be a woman due to her appearance, who bragged about his marital affairs, and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity,” Romney said.
In Ohio, farmer Jerry Slankard spent four hours to arrange manure from 15 cows to create the message, “No Drumpf,” which was as wide as a football field, ABC affiliate WEWS-TV reported.
“I know there’s a lot of people maybe not agreeing with me, but that’s their American right; I just voice my opinion and not yours,” Slankard told the station.
Trump also received backlash during the 11th GOP debate on Thursday, March 3, particularly from candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who won one state and three states, respectively, on Super Tuesday.
“Two-thirds of people who cast a vote in a Republican primary or caucus have voted against you,” Rubio told Trump during the debate. “The reason why is because we are not going to turn over the conservative movement or the party of Lincoln or Reagan, for example, to someone whose positions are not conservative.”
At the end of Thursday’s debate, candidates said they would ultimately support whoever becomes the Republican nominee, which appears likely to be Trump.
