Ted Cruz said at a campaign stop in Iowa. “And let me tell you something about my definition of an outsider: If you are born in the United States of America you are an insider through and through”.
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Ted Cruz escalated tensions with Marco Rubio over the weekend as both presidential candidates continue to rise in recent polls, suggesting his Republican rival “is attempting to mislead voters” with “false” attacks.
Catherine Lane/Catherine Lane via iStock Pile of condoms.
With the Iowa Caucus two months away Cruz says he hopes his momentum will continue, “If conservatives continue to unite, I believe we will win here in Iowa”.
Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Tuesday, Trump said, “When you have the world looking at us and would like to destroy us as quickly as possible, I err on the side of security”. “You’d put 50 cents in and voila!” added Texas’ junior senator, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
While admitting conservatives seemed afraid of confronting the issue, the Texas Senator concluded the topic was “utterly made-up nonsense”.
Cruz also assailed other Republicans who, in his words, “curled up in a ball” and said “don’t hurt me” when the “war on women” charge was leveled against them. “Now at some point, if there’s two of us left, I don’t know if that’s going to happen”. Cruz asked. “You go, ‘Aha!”
Republican Senator John McCain dubbed Cruz a “whacko bird”, according to Breitbart.
At least that’s the message Ted Cruz spread on Monday night at a town hall meeting in Bettendorf, Iowa while saying Republicans are not waging a “war on women”.
He also weighed in on what he thinks of Trump’s stance on immigration, “Well, listen, I think Donald has tapped into some real frustration…” The vote referenced is Cruz’s support of the USA Freedom Act, which ended the US government’s bulk collection of phone metadata on Sunday.
“If we come out of 2016 with a mandate from the people where you change the incentives and it becomes politically more risky for members of Congress to do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing, that is the only way you get major change”, Cruz said.
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This is a result of the anti-abortion movement’s quiet shift back toward anti-contraception policies, including their plans to close down Planned Parenthood, enact sweeping restrictions on health insurance for contraception and, increasingly, pass “personhood” measures that, if successful, could ban certain forms of contraception.
