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”. But I think he can do it. Cruz is now running second in Iowa and could easily become this season’s Mr. Conservative. “You’d put 50 cents in and voila!” added Texas’ junior senator, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. So yes, anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, but it’s an utterly made-up nonsense issue.
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Trump’s bump comes after GOP strategists and members of the media speculated that his widely-disputed claim that “thousands” of Muslim-Americans celebrated the September 11 attacks could create trouble for him in the polls, particularly with fellow Republican contenders Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio on rising swiftly.
“If he carries this message into the general election in OH, we’ll hand this election to Hillary Clinton“, Matt Borges, chairman of the state’s Republican Party, told the paper.
In Cruz they get someone who can also attack Obama’s foreign policy, who has a track record of standing up for Israel and who can say he’s been talking about terrorism for a long time. You can’t run on Obamacare because millions of people have lost their jobs, lost their health care, lost their doctors, seen their premiums skyrocket. Asked whether he thought Cruz has made country less safe, Christie responded: “Sure he has”.
In 2013, Cruz called birth control pills “abortifacients”, and as a senator has supported “religious liberty” measures meant to protect private employers who would invoke religious beliefs so as not to pay for birth control, or who might take action against employees who use birth control or have had an abortion. He also criticized attempts to pin the Planned Parenthood shooting on pro-life rhetoric, dismissing the killer as a “deranged individual”. Oh Ted, you really shouldn’t have.
Only a few fringe activists are talking about banning all forms of birth control outright. Cruz said, citing a series of recent anti-Planned Parenthood videos.
Churchgoer Keith Leslie argued that Cruz was earning his support in part because he believed Donald Trump isn’t fit to be president.
Among Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to lead big, 60 percent to 30 percent over Vermont Sen. In one of my favorite moments of the 2012 debates, President Obama argued “employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage”. Republicans have upped the ante and moved from lying to complete detachment from reality in 2016.
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And Clinton’s lead over GOP challengers has picked up from the previous poll.
