Donald Trump won the sixth Republican presidential debate Thursday because he “just ate [Ted] Cruz’s lunch” on the issue of NY values, political commentator Michael Reagan told Newsmax TV.
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“Yes, I made a paperwork error disclosing it on one piece of paper instead of the other, but if that’s the best hit the New York Times has got, they better go back to the well”, Cruz said.
Cruz defended himself by saying, “since September, the Constitution hasn’t changed, but the poll numbers have”. It is generally agreed by legal scholars that he qualifies as a natural born citizen, eligible to run for president.
Mr. Cruz did not just dominate much of the Republican debate, he slashed, he mocked, he charmed and he outmaneuvered everybody else onstage – but none as devastatingly and as thoroughly as this campaign’s most commanding performer, Donald J. Trump.
“You have to have certainty”, Trump said. “He is urging Cruz to ask courts for a declaratory judgment to settle the matter”.
Cruz’s critics have revelled in teasing him about the fact that he was born outside the U.S. His American mother and Cuban-American father were working in the Alberta oil industry and he spent his first few years there.
“But I was born here”, Trump said.
“You shouldn’t misrepresent how well you’re doing in the polls”, Trump told Cruz. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., businessman Donald Trump, Sen. “Someone who can not handle intelligence information appropriately can not be commander in chief”.
Later in the debate, Cruz escalated the feud, attacking Trump’s personal values. The Florida lawmaker then slammed his rival for allegedly flip-flopping on the issue.
“He’s not a conservative”, Bush said. “The smell of death was with us for months”, he said, adding “that was a very insulting statement that Ted made”.
Said Cruz, “Everyone understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal… focused around money and the media”.
Trump said he was insulted.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took on front-runner Donald Trump during Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate when the two battled over Cruz’s eligibility to be president because he was born in Canada.
Underscoring the split in the party that has defined the turbulent GOP primary, the more mainstream candidates on stage fought to edge their way into the debate.
“Oh I’m very angry”, said Donald Trump in regards to the direction the country is heading.
Whenever the opportunity was given, which was quite frequent, the seven candidates took shots at President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Republican presidential candidates, from left, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Marco Rubio – who has been sparring with Cruz for weeks, particularly over immigration, listed every issue on which he accuses Cruz of “flipping”.
“We can’t have a president of the United States that supports gun control”, Rubio said.
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Christie responded by reminding Rubio of his noted moment in the October debate in Boulder, Colo., in which he lectured Bush for going against his instincts and following his advisers in attacking Rubio. “When you’re a senator what you get to do is talk and talk and talk and no one can keep up to see if what you’re saying is accurate or not”, Christie said.
