So he is a conservative and if you’re not a conservative, then you’re a bad person and you should be excluded and conservatives vote primarily in a Republican primary.
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Lindsey Graham announced he is backing Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, praising the former Florida governor’s approach to national security.
“I don’t know that he’s a nice guy”, said Donald Trump, but he pointed out that he “checked the online polls and they have 200,000 or 300,00 people calling in and “I won every one of them”.
“Donald Trump will damage the ability to grow this party. He’s got probably a 4 or 5% chance”, Trump said, breaking into a grin. Ted Cruz was in the third spot with 27%. I think that’s ludicrous. “We’re looking for the whole package here”.
John Jay, later the first chief justice of the United States, wrote: “the commander in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but a natural born citizen”.
“He’s not doing that well in SC or nationally”. “It’s entirely possible the final two candidates will be Trump and Cruz, and people like me will be despondent”.
Cruz criticized Donald Trump this week – including at Thursday’s Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate – for embodying “New York values”.
Those right-wing New Yorkers include significant supporters and donors to the Cruz campaign, although one can hope they will reconsider that choice now.
Cruz “has no trouble taking money from New York City, but he’s quick to insult our people and our values”, said de Blasio.
Trump responded by citing the city’s response to the September 11 attacks.
The idea that there’s something wrong with “New York values” rankled plenty of New Yorkers. “And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made”.
“In Iowa now, as you know, Ted, in the last three polls I’m beating you”, Trump said. As he has done since the concerns first came up, Cruz brushed aside the legal questions during the debate, making a not-so-veiled swipe at what he thinks is Trump’s true motivation for bringing it up. Cruz says the attacks Trump has launched concerning his status as a “natural born citizen” have come about only becasue Trump has lost some of his lead in the recent polls. In Cruz’s case, though he was born in Canada and his father was not a US citizen, his mother was.
The U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on the matter and is not likely to do so, unless Mr. Cruz is elected and someone with standing challenges him in court.
Cruz is also facing scrutiny over a revelation that he had failed to disclose in Federal Ethics Commission filings nearly $1 million in loans from banks including Goldman Sachs, where his wife works as managing director. “People are waking up, and just like millions of New Yorkers, they’re fed up with policies that don’t fight for the working men and women of this country but instead further the elite liberal views that have taken this country down a path that is not working”.
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More than two hours of prime-time argument Thursday presented voters with a sharp contrast to the optimistic vision of America that President Barack Obama painted in his State of the Union address earlier this week.
