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| Republican debate live: Cruz and Rubio seek to take Trump down | Republican debate live: Cruz and Rubio seek to take Trump down |
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| As he attempts to make his lead in the Republican presidential race unassailable at next week’s Super Tuesday primary contests, Donald Trump is being confronted with resurfaced allegations that he sexually assaulted and tried to rape a woman in the early 1990s, reports the Guardian’s Jon Swaine: | |
| The woman alleged in a federal lawsuit in 1997 that Trump violated her “physical and mental integrity” when he touched her intimately without consent after her boyfriend went into business with him, leaving her “emotionally devastated [and] distraught”. | |
| The woman, whom the Guardian is not naming, dropped the $125m lawsuit in Manhattan the following month. It coincided with a separate legal dispute between Trump and the woman’s then-boyfriend over an alleged breach of contract relating to their beauty pageant business venture. Trump claimed at the time that the lawsuit alleging assault was aimed at pressuring him to settle the other dispute, which reportedly he did for a six-figure sum later that year. | |
| On Wednesday, Trump’s counsel Michael Cohen told a reporter for Mail Online that there was “no truth” to the lawsuit’s allegations. “The plaintiff in the matter ... would acknowledge the same,” Cohen was quoted as saying. | |
| Yet when asked by the Guardian whether she stood by the allegations detailed in the lawsuit, the woman said in a text message: “Yes.” The woman, now a successful makeup artist in New York, declined to discuss the allegations in detail. | |
| Read the full piece here: | |
| Related: Sexual assault allegations against Trump resurface as Super Tuesday nears | |
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| Tom Dart | |
| The Guardian’s Tom Dart reports from a protest outside the debate venue at the University of Houston: | |
| As smartly-dressed guests headed for the debate venue, several hundred protestors massed then marched along the edge of the security perimeter at the University of Houston campus, agitating for a variety of causes, among them Black Lives Matter, pro-immigration, anti-Trump and anti-Cruz. | |
| Dozens were with Fight for $15, calling for a $15 minimum wage. GOP contenders including Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio rejected the idea of raising the minimum when the issue came up at last November’s debate in Milwaukee, while Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have proposed an increase. | |
| “It’s something that we need, we have families that are struggling,” said a demonstrator, Carlton, who works at a burger restaurant and goes to college while trying to take care of his three-year-old son by himself. | |
| Another fast-food worker, Janice, 47, said that she earns $8 an hour. “There’s no way a human can live off that,” she said. She lives with five children, and a granddaughter she looks after, in a studio apartment. “It’s real hard,” she said. | |
| “Prices go up and still my wage doesn’t go up… Everyone lives in one room. That’s what $8 is doing for me right now.” | |
| She had no strong opinions about the politicians who were soon to take the stage a couple of hundred metres away - while they indulge in rhetoric, her focus is on practical and immediate matters. “I’m trying to get a roof over my head,” she said. | |
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| Google’s at the Houston debate and they’ve produced a 360-degree view of what the room looks like from Trump’s podium: | |
| It seems like it would be hard to think in there? So loudly colorful and lights and purple seats and too many shapes – and this is without Wolf Blitzer. | |
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| Sanders in Flint, Michigan: 'never again' | |
| Ryan Felton | |
| The debate isn’t scheduled to start for more than an hour, and if it starts on time that’ll be a first. So let’s detour for a moment to Vermont senator Bernie Sander’s visit to Flint, Michigan, today. The Guardian’s Ryan Felton reports: | |
| Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders called the lead contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, “one of the more serious public health crises in the modern history of this country” as he addressed community members in his first visit to the city. | |
| With the Michigan presidential primary looming on 8 March, Sanders addressed a crowd of some 300 residents in a church, saying he hoped that “out of the tragedy” would come “fundamental changes in public policy.” | |
| “In Flint, the situation may be more extreme, but all over this country, our infrastructure is crumbling,” Sanders told a majority-white crowd. The Vermont senator said he has proposed a $1 trillion infrastructure program that aims to “provide safe drinking water” and create “millions of decent paying jobs.” | |
| “It is my hope that the American people will look at Flint and say never again,” he said. | |
| In answer to one question, he renewed his call for Michigan governor Rick Snyder to resign. | |
| “The dereliction of this community has been so extraordinary, that I think in good conscious he should resign,” he said. Snyder, a Republican, has rebuffed calls to step down. | |
| At the close of the event, Sanders said the US has to help “rebuild Flint” and “get our priorities right.” | |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 10th Republican presidential debate in the 2016 race for the White House. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 10th Republican presidential debate in the 2016 race for the White House. |
| Guardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs is with Tom Dart in Houston, Texas, for the proceedings. This blog is anchored out of New York City and let’s see if we can’t find readers from all around the world. Hit the comments and tell us where you’re calling from! | Guardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs is with Tom Dart in Houston, Texas, for the proceedings. This blog is anchored out of New York City and let’s see if we can’t find readers from all around the world. Hit the comments and tell us where you’re calling from! |
| With only five days to go till 12 states vote on so-called Super Tuesday, it’s do-or-die night for would-be rivals who might take out Donald Trump. The question is, what could they possibly do on the debate stage that would change things? Trump has won the last three state contests running away, and it’s hard to find an upcoming state where he looks vulnerable. | With only five days to go till 12 states vote on so-called Super Tuesday, it’s do-or-die night for would-be rivals who might take out Donald Trump. The question is, what could they possibly do on the debate stage that would change things? Trump has won the last three state contests running away, and it’s hard to find an upcoming state where he looks vulnerable. |
| A new Quinnipiac poll of Florida Republicans, for example, measured Trump ahead of Senator Marco Rubio by 16 points, 44-28. Marco Rubio is from Florida. | A new Quinnipiac poll of Florida Republicans, for example, measured Trump ahead of Senator Marco Rubio by 16 points, 44-28. Marco Rubio is from Florida. |
| Related: Debate is last chance for Rubio and Cruz to dent Trump before Super Tuesday | Related: Debate is last chance for Rubio and Cruz to dent Trump before Super Tuesday |
| Tonight we’re looking for Rubio and Texas senator Ted Cruz to go all Eight Mile on the frontrunner (and yes we’re aware that’s Dr Ben Carson’s song). If there was any reason for them to pull punches before, it disappeared in Trump’s 46% crusher win in Nevada on Tuesday. Trump won across every demographic. It looks an awful lot like what happened in Vegas is going national. | Tonight we’re looking for Rubio and Texas senator Ted Cruz to go all Eight Mile on the frontrunner (and yes we’re aware that’s Dr Ben Carson’s song). If there was any reason for them to pull punches before, it disappeared in Trump’s 46% crusher win in Nevada on Tuesday. Trump won across every demographic. It looks an awful lot like what happened in Vegas is going national. |
| Ohio governor John Kasich joins Carson, Cruz and Rubio tonight to fill out the non-Trump field. | Ohio governor John Kasich joins Carson, Cruz and Rubio tonight to fill out the non-Trump field. |
| Boring Details | Boring Details |
| Where: University of Houston in Houston, Texas: “Space City” | Where: University of Houston in Houston, Texas: “Space City” |
| When: 8.30pm ET, CNN says, which probably means more like 9pm | When: 8.30pm ET, CNN says, which probably means more like 9pm |
| Who: The debate is hosted by CNN, Telemundo and the Salem Media Group | Who: The debate is hosted by CNN, Telemundo and the Salem Media Group |
| The candidates are, alphabetically: | The candidates are, alphabetically: |
| The moderators / questioners are, as billed: | The moderators / questioners are, as billed: |
| Why: pick a GOP nominee | Why: pick a GOP nominee |
| What to Watch For In Tonight’s Debate: A bald-headed man, seated in the fourth row, noiselessly weeping. | What to Watch For In Tonight’s Debate: A bald-headed man, seated in the fourth row, noiselessly weeping. |