Mitt Romney, the comedian, was on display last night as he headlined a fundraising dinner for the NRCC, but was this joke about Donald Trump’s past immigrant wives a little out of line? You make the call:
Mitt Romney at @NRCC dinner: "Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there are really are jobs Americans won't do."
— Kris Hammond (@KrisHammond) March 23, 2016
Eek.
Trump is already angry at Ted Cruz over an ad using a racy image from Melania’s modeling days, going as far as to threaten to “spill the beans” on Cruz’s wife in retaliations (the ad is from the Make America Awesome super PAC, not Cruz):
Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2016
Cruz’s response:
Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless https://t.co/0QpKSnjgnE
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 23, 2016
Will Trump take the bait and respond to Mitt’s trolling as well? Stay tuned…
Romney did have another good zinger last night:
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Paul Ryan at @NRCC dinner: Trump has questioned whether you are Mormon. Romney: "All he had to do was ask my wives."
— Kris Hammond (@KrisHammond) March 23, 2016
Now that’s funny.
More excerpts from the dinner:
https://twitter.com/DanielVajdich/status/712437835924709376
https://twitter.com/DanielVajdich/status/712433691147034624
According to Roll Call, the dinner raised a record-setting $20.5 million:
NRCC Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., heralded the record fundraising haul as a sign of the party’s strength at the congressional level come November. “Our goal has always been to maintain and grow our historic Republican majority and with the success of this year’s dinner we are on course to meeting that goal,” he said.
Well done.
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