I’m steamrolling Jeb Bush, Rubio in their home state: Trump
US presidential candidate Donald Trump says new polls show that he is leading his Republican rivals Senator Marco Rubio and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in their home state, Florida.
“We’re leading in Florida against a sitting senator, right – a sitting senator,” Trump said at a rally in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday. "So we are beating a sitting senator who never votes for Florida.”
“And think of this, we’re leading against an ex-governor, Bush – Bush, in favor of Common Core, can you believe you’re in favor of Common Core?" he asked.
The New York billionaire mentioned more polls that show him leading the Republican primary in several other states.
“So we’re leading in New Jersey big, we’re leading in Texas big, we’re leading in Ohio, beating the hell out of this guy [Ohio Gov. John] Kasich, who’s terrible, terrible debater, terrible,” Trump said.
“Leading big in New Hampshire, leading in Iowa, leading monstrously in South Carolina, North Carolina,” he added.
According to another poll, Trump is still leading the Republican field nationally but his support has fallen by 12 points in less than a week, mainly because of his recent controversial remarks against Muslims.
The decline in his popularity among Republicans is the biggest since he leapt to the top of the field in July, according to the poll released on Friday.
But, Trump is not backing down from his controversial claim that Muslims cheered as the Twin Towers fell on 9/11.
He has told NBC News that he has "the world’s greatest memory" and everybody knows about this, insisting that his claims were valid and flaunted the support he said he received on his Twitter page.
Trump also demanded apologies from those people who dared to doubt his recollection of the 9/11 attacks. “I want an apology,” he tweeted. "Many people have tweeted that I am right.”
On Saturday, he caused more controversy by saying that not only Arab Muslims in New Jersey cheered the September 11, 2001 attacks, but Muslims across the world celebrated the fall of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
“Worldwide, the Muslims were absolutely going wild,” Trump said on Saturday speaking at a campaign rally in Sarasota, Florida.
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