Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz appear to have called off a campaign truce with the two exchanging not so friendly comments about each other, days before the fifth GOP debate. “You look like the way he’s dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like-frankly like a little bit of a maniac”.
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But final week he questioned Trump’s judgment at a personal fundraiser, in accordance with the New York Times, after the billionaire businessman advocated briefly banning Muslims from getting into america.
Unlike the opposite Republicans in the 2016 White House race, the D.R. senator from Texas has embraced Trump and prevented public criticism of the favored candidate.
The jibe came as the United States senator passed Trump in an Iowa opinion poll.
“He said it behind my back”, Trump said, before claiming Cruz does not have the right temperament and judgment for the job of president. “You never get things done that way”, he said.
“I think it’s got a huge downside in terms of American foreign policy and I hear this from foreign ministers and others as I travel and engage with people in various countries”, he said on CBS.
‘In honor of my friend realDonaldTrump and good-hearted #Maniacs everywhere, ‘ Cruz said in his tweet. A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on 13 December revealed Trump only had a five percentage point lead over Cruz, 27% to 22%.
On the Fox program, he additionally criticized Cruz for speaking about him behind his again. That’s a 21-level leap from October. “I imply I might be saying something and he’d say, I agree I agree”, Trump stated on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
It’s not the only evidence of Cruz’s momentum: A Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa poll shows Cruz surging to a 10-point lead over Trump in the first state to vote in the presidential nominating process. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was at 6 percent, a 1-percentage-point increase from October.
Cruz, who sees himself as a fellow anti-establishment Republican, has avoided directly attacking Trump for months, reluctant to alienate Trump voters who might view him as an alternative should Trump lose out.
Rubio was measured in his criticism of Trump on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, saying: “There’s a lot we have a difference of opinion on, but we can’t ignore that he’s touched on some issues that people are concerned about”.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Trump Sunday, saying the Republican front-runner’s calls to ban Muslims from entering the United States “endanger national security”. He linked his proposal to ban Muslims temporarily to his tough-on-immigration ideas, which included building a wall at the border with Mexico.
