Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed back on claims made by rival GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio that "being angry" won't solve the nation's problems, insisting he's not an angry person himself, but that he and millions of Americans are plenty mad over the state of the nation.
"I'm not an angry person, first of all, but I'm very angry about the way the country is run and so are thousands and thousands and millions of people that support me," the GOP presidential front-runner told
Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
"We have a strong bond with the people, and the polls show that," Trump continued.
Americans are angry over immigration, the Iran deal, the economy, Common Core,and China "taking all our business and our jobs and taking all our money," he told the program.
"So we're angry about a lot of things," said Trump. "We're angry about Obamacare which isn't working . . . Soon we won't be angry, because if I'm elected we'll get things fixed."
Trump, after winning Tuesday night's Nevada caucuses, said he feels great about the numbers, especially when it came to the Hispanic vote, which resulted to 46 percent of his votes.
However, Trump said he has been saying he'd get the Latino vote because of his push for job growth.
Meanwhile, pundits are saying that as the field of candidates shrink, the party's establishment will rally behind Rubio, but Trump said he does not think that will spell trouble for him.
"If Ted Cruz drops out, I'd get a lot of the votes," said Trump. "If any one of them drops out, I'd get a lot of the votes. I have been watching the pundits for a year. They said, 'well, they just add up numbers.' They forget that when somebody drops out, I get a lot of the votes."
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