For months, the presidential candidates have been selling themselves to the public by laying their future plans for the country.
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“It is only because Cruz is feeling the heat right now and there will be a point in time when he starts to tell too much truth that he either won’t have a camera pointed at him anymore or he will just be told to shut up”, he added. “We’re going to go right through the whole group, and I think we can do something really special”.
Trump raised questions of whether Cruz, who was born in Canada, is eligible to serve as president and criticized his ties to the banking firm Goldman Sachs.
Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Do we all like Ted Cruz? But the poll numbers have. Meanwhile, only 12 percent choose Cruz as the victor, while Rubio came in third place with 5 percent.
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz cheers as he arrives on January 16 …
Ben Carson (8 percent) and Jeb Bush (5 percent) round out the top five. Rubio’s chances: 13 percent.
But Trump’s biggest target was Cruz, the USA senator from Texas who has overtaken Trump for the lead in recent polling on the GOP race in Iowa.
“Donald Trump said just yesterday that the problem with me is that I wouldn’t go to Washington to make a deal and go along to get along with the Democrats”, Cruz said.
Even though Gov. Rick Scott kicked off his insurgent 2010 campaign for governor by promising to bring Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida (a measure that many people saw as anti-Hispanic), Scott ended up winning the state’s Hispanic vote in the general election. Cruz, for example, has campaigned at churches and discussed his Christian beliefs more frequently in Iowa as part of his 99-county tour.
With the nomination on the line, the political knives have come out.
The risk for the more mainstream candidates is that Trump or Cruz generates momentum in the first two states, and it’s too strong to stop as the race turns to SC and beyond.
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Also during that period, Trump has received 17,374,441 likes, comments, and shares on Facebook, also more than all GOP candidates combined and greater than the Clinton and Sanders total combined. Rubio and Cruz, both Cuban, have been jostling for conservative support ahead of Iowa’s February 1 primary. “But again, I think you have to look at the time frame in which this is happening”.
