In interviews with CNN and Fox that aired Sunday, Trump emphasized that the ban would be temporary and not “total and complete”, as he had said initially. “I was for bombing (the Islamic State’s) oil long before anyone else was talking about it. That’s good judgement”.
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Those battles are likely to come to a head when the candidates meet in person Tuesday night for CNN’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.
“He’s been so nice to me”.
“Let’s say you do a lot of business in the Southeast”. “But I think the time will come to an end pretty soon, it sounds like”.
Additionally during Sunday’s interview, he intimidated Cruz in the wake of the Texas senator surpassing the former front runner Trump in an Iowa presidential survey release on Saturday, reports Reuters.
Trump touted his ability to get along with liberals and conservatives and said that was the hallmark of the “world-class businessman” he is.
He’ll never get anything done and that’s the problem with Ted.
But with Cruz, 44, Trump is so far staying close to the issues, although he did call Cruz “a maniac” for his temperament in the Senate while on Fox News Sunday.
Discussing to Wallace, Trump said: “You look at what she did with Libya, what she did with Syria”. “People are looking for who is prepared to be a commander in chief”.
Despite his background as an Ivy League-educated attorney and his time in the Bush administration, Cruz rose to prominence as a tea party darling who became the national face of the 2013 government shutdown.
“Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for voters”.
“At a core of Cruz’s candidacy is a great phonyism”, Stevens said of the self-stylized insurgent. “That’s OK. I don’t think he’s qualified to be president”.
Trump took to Twitter to immediately respond to Cruz, saying, “Looks like @tedcruz is getting ready to attack”. “It’s my opinion that they don’t do it properly because you know they poll like three or 400 people”. “They’re kind of sitting there, dazed like all of us”.
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And while Ben Carson’s stock may be plummeting in the race for the Republican nomination – he’s slipped from once threatening Trump’s lead position to a fourth place finish in the latest polls – the retired neurosurgeon remains competitive with the likely Democratic nominee. “I took much more heat when I said illegal immigration and southern borders and the wall and all of that than I ever took for this”.
