4 March 2016 - US Elections: Republican Debate turns dirty
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Republican debate turns dirty
The Republican presidential race got dirty Thursday night.
Donald Trump opened the GOP debate here by boasting about the size of his genitals. He responded to recent comments from Marco Rubio in which the Florida senator joked about the size of Trump's hands and said "you know what they say about men with small hands."
On the debate stage, Trump stretched his hands out for the audience to see -- then insisted the suggestion that "something else must be small" was false.
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Questions
Frank Bruni (The New York Times, 03/03/2016)
I’m not being cheeky. I’m not being shocking. I’m noting something that we cannot lose track of, should not shrug our shoulders about and must not gloss over: Trump has succeeded at nothing as fully as he has at infusing the presidential race with a vulgarity that’s absolutely breathtaking.
He has done so well at dragging his rivals so far down into the sewer with him that portions of what we watched on Thursday night were a fetid farce. We actually witnessed an interchange — in the first 10 minutes, no less — about how well endowed (or not) he is.
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Trump under attack
John Cassidy (The New Yorker, 03/03/2016)
Give one thing to the organizers of the Republican effort to stop Donald Trump from getting the G.O.P. nomination: they know how to make a negative ad. The sixty-second spot about Trump University that the Our Principles super PAC started airing on Wednesday is devastating. It alternates clips of Trump promoting the so-called school, which he launched in 2005, with accusations from the office of Eric T. Schneiderman, New York’s Attorney General, that it was a scam operation that bilked each student out of as much as thirty-five thousand dollars. After watching the spot, you are forced to wonder why on earth the Bush, Rubio, and Cruz campaigns didn’t put out something like it six months ago.
That’s a question for the campaign historians to answer. The immediate question is whether the “Never Trump” movement can succeed. For at least a couple of reasons I am deeply skeptical.
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(The New York Times, 04/03/2016)
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4 March 2016 - US Elections: Republican Debate turns dirty, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), avril 2016. Consulté le 26/12/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/key-story/archives-revue-de-presse-2016/4-march-2016-us-elections-republican-debate-turns-dirty