Donald Trump threw fresh jabs at one of his favorite punching bags on Wednesday, Mitt Romney, telling reporters in New Hampshire that he “choked” and squandered a could-not-lose election in 2012.
Minutes before he fielded questions from everyday voters in the town halls that are part-and-parcel of New Hampshire campaigning, Trump spoke to reporters in a rapid-fire, wide-ranging press conference.
“Mitt Romney let us down. He should’ve won that election. He failed. He choked,” Trump said. “No different than a golfer who misses a putt on the 18th hole.”
Trump also recommitted that he was open to sending ground troops into Iraq to beat back a surging threat posted by ISIS.
Buoyed by a new CNN/ORC poll that shows his lead stable and perhaps even growing, Trump took aim at Republican candidate Jeb Bush — who spoke at his own town hall Wednesday evening mere miles away — as an inept campaigner.
“The only thing constant is Trump,” he said.