Rough and fall. With all my strength. In the race for this year’s Republican Nomination, Donald Trump did not hesitate to attack and make fun of many of their opponents, and some of them concluded attacks on him, only to refrain from it when they seemed to support, not hurt him.
Ted Cruz is the only candidate who clearly refrained from the attack on the national leader, sliding on him. “When others threw the rocks and others threw insults, I did not reciprocate,” Cruz said on January 5.
He responded to an attempt to challenge his status of Trump’s “born citizen” (because he was born in Canada) with a tweet showing that Fonzi jumping with a shark, suggesting that Trump moved too far and became amusing. Considering that Henry Winkler, an actor playing this role, cut out the opposite motod-free ads addressed to seniors, perhaps this is a test of the super-leaching of a 69-year-old billionaire with a 45-year-old Texas senator.
But these are quite tiny things compared to attacks carried out by candidates often characterized as a “establishment” Republicans who are fighting to overtake Trump or finish the second second in New Hampshire.
Super Pac supporting Marco Rubio runs two ads focused on Chris Christie, whose campaign at the Town Hall in New Hampshire pushed him to third place. He attacks him for the support of Common Core and the extension of Medicaid in New Jersey. “All you need is one tall, common core, loving Liberal, Obama-Medicaid President,” warns the sinister narrator, above the image of Christie covering Barack Obama after Sandy’s super-sort in the final week of the 2012 campaign. Another strikes Christie for “Bridgegate”, the closing scandal of Fort Lee Lane from 2014.
Another advertisement asks: “When does New Jerseyites look at Chris Christie, why do so many want to leave?” The reasons given: high taxes, ponderous employment enhance, indictment of two helpers Christie nad Bridgegate.
Supporters of John Kasich, who worked in second place in New Hampshire polls at the beginning of September, but since then they fell, send a direct mail describing Christie as “a hard conversation. Poor record. ” “Here, in Ohio, we have a balanced budget; They did not end in New Jersey, “said Kasich” Meet the Press “. “Our loan has been strengthened; Their loan has been reduced. We have more jobs. “
Christie returned, declaring that Rubio “was never in a difficult race in his life” and attacked him for being part of the eight support of a comprehensive immigration account in 2013. “The guy who was in favor of amnesty, and then fled away when the topic was too hot, he tells you two things: he is not a reliable conservative, and and b, whenever he gets too hot, Marco turns his tail and runs.” Christie also attacked Rubio for the missing voices of the Roll Senate.
Josh Marshall, the owner of the liberal Talking Points note, claims that such attacks show “how much this main cycle” for Republicans. In fact, these are standard campaigns in the cycle, which, largely thanks to Trump, did not develop in accordance with the usual rules.
Commentators with high minds like to condemn negative campaigns, apparently about the theory that they do not provide citizenship. But negative campaigns are justified if it is precise, forthright and crucial. Many Republican voters certainly believe that in 2008 or 2012 there was not enough negative campaign against Barack Obama.
Whether these specific attacks are precise is something that the press can solve; Whether they are forthright and significant ultimately depends to voters. Criticizing the documentation of presence in the Rubio Senate seems unlikely to be more helpful, who would not spend much time in Trenton than Jeba Bush when he confronted Rubio in this matter in the third Republican debate.
Rubio reacted to attacks on his gang of eight support with the support of allegations that Ted Cruz, who opposed the act, supported funds to enhance legal immigration.
The problem facing all these candidates lies in the fact that in the competition many candidates negative attacks of the candidate and can reduce support for candidate B, but can also hurt the candidate A, and also support candidate C or D or E. Between Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean ultimately He helped John Kerry and forgotten John Edwards in Iów clubs in 2004.
Nevertheless, the election is a game of zero, with one winner, and therefore negative campaigns, despite the risk, is inevitable in such a competition. Look for more before voting starts next month.
