Insults fly during GOP debate

The Boston Globe reports:

From the opening moments of the Republican debate, front-runner Donald Trump was forced Thursday night to defend himself against criticisms by the party’s previous nominee, assure voters that several of his enterprises were not failures or predatory, and even discuss his physical attributes.

In a series of heated exchanges with Senator Marco Rubio that quickly grew personal — with both candidates screaming indecipherably into their microphones — Trump repeatedly referred to the junior senator from Florida as “little Marco.”

“Don’t worry about it little Marco, don’t worry about it little Marco,” he said. “This guy has the number one absentee record in the United States! That’s why the people for Florida do not like him!”

The Donald.