As the 2016 Republican presidential primary race continues to simmer after Donald Trump entered the race, and poll after poll show that Americans like what they are hearing from him, it seems as if there is really nothing the candidates in the race won’t attack each other on.
The attacks seem to either directed at Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, by Donald Trump, or, at Donald Trump by Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.Carly Fiorina has taken jabs at Trump, but the real juice is the back and forth between Rubio, Trump, and Bush.
Trump recently stated Bush should set a better example of talking English in the United States after the former Florida governor said reporters in Miami about him, “El hombre no es conservador.”
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Translation: The man is not a conservative.
I believe what Trump was trying to say is that English should be the official language of the U.S., and that it should be spoken first, right?
Whatever.Now to Rubio.
While on a campaign stop in Carson City, Nevada, Rubio said that Trump’s “Make American Great Again” slogan wasn’t accurate because he felt that America was still “great.”
But while Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was first used by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign due to the economic disaster then-President Jimmy Carter had prescribed for the country, where did Rubio get his 2016 “A New American Century” campaign slogan?
Rubio quite possibly got the idea of using “A New American Century” from none other than President Bill Clinton.
Here is a video clip of President Clinton giving a speech where he uses the term “The Next American Century.” We don’t know exactly when the video was taken, only that it was shot sometime within the Clinton presidency.Senator Bob Dole also used the term during his 1996 presidential campaign against Clinton. At the time, a young Marco Rubio worked on the Dole for President campaign, and may have first heard it then.
Again, it’s not exactly the same term, but you get what I am saying.
But then there is Jack Kemp, Dole’s 1996 running mate. Kemp did use the term ” A New American Century” in a speech he have.
We will carry the word to every man, woman and child of every color and background that today, on the eve of the new American century, it is time to renew the American promise, to recapture the American Dream and to give our nation a new birth of freedom… with liberty, equality and justice for all.–Jack Kemp (PBS)
Regardless, the slogan is not as original as many around the country would think.Rubio could be in prime position to make a run at Trump in the coming months. The next GOP presidential debate on CNN may also serve to be a campaign launching pad for Rubio, as well as Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, but could also be another opportunity for Trump to grab all the attention.
So, what will be the next line of attack in the 2016 GOP presidential primary race?
Should we expect more of the same, or will the candidates dig deep into the gutter and start personally attacking one another?