
GOP front-runner Donald Trump (Photo: Twitter)
Donald Trump, Republican front-runner, took to Twitter to fire off a range of preemptive attacks against former and failed presidential hopeful Mitt Romney – preemptive because of the widely reported and much-anticipated press conference the ex-governor is due to give Thursday morning about the billionaire's White House aspirations.
In one post, Trump wrote: "Why did Mitt Romney BEG me for my endorsement four years ago?"
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Another: "I am the only one who can beat Hillary Clinton. I am not a Mitt Romney, who doesn't know how to win. Hillary wants no part of 'Trump.'"
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LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 02: Donald Trump (R) appears at a news conference to endorse Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his wife Ann Romney looks on at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas February 2, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Romney lost his own presidential bid against President Obama in 2012, and again in 2008, during the Republican primary against Sen. John McCain.
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In recent weeks, he's taken to the public podiums to attack Trump, and call him a less-than-desirable candidate for the Republican Party. Advance excerpts of his planned Thursday morning speech include references to Trump as a "phony" and "fraud" who's "playing the American public for suckers," as WND reported.
Trump, who's leading national polls and who just won big on Super Tuesday – bolstering his delegate count to 319 compared to second-place Sen. Ted Cruz's 226 – has been fighting many within his own party for campaign respect.
In another tweet Thursday morning, he wrote: "I have brought millions of people into the Republican Party, while the Dems are going down. Establishment wants to kill this movement!"
And another: "Failed candidate Mitt Romney, who ran one of the worst races in presidential history, is working with the establishment to bury a big 'R' win!"
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Yet one more: "Looks like two-time failed candidate Mitt Romney is going to be telling Republicans how to get elected. Not a good messenger!"
And another, shortly after Romney's announced press conference made the media waves: "Just another desperate move by the man who should have easily beaten Barack Obama."