“Nobody in Congress likes him. A total disgrace. So you know, I had to say it, I thought what he said was very sad”. Wow, that sounds like a very good case.
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Ask Ayotte about him, and you get a practiced response, and a sense she’d rather talk about other things.
For eight hours, Trump attacked Cruz for not reporting two bank loans he used to finance his 2012 Senate campaign, for being born in Canada, and for bashing Trump’s “New York Values”. “When the World Trade Center came down, I saw something that no place on Earth could have handled more beautifully, more humanely than NY”.
“I will gladly accept the mantle of anger”, Trump retorted two days later, at the GOP debate in North Charleston, South Carolina.
He pointed to the real estate magnate’s own statements which included a 1999 interview in which Mr Trump ascribed his pro-choice views and support for gays serving in the military in part to having lived all his life in NY. “We lose the jobs and all the different things”, Trump said.
Iowa Republicans, it may not shock you to learn, care a lot about values in general and about Ted Cruz’s values in particular (we asked).
Trump is now working hard to paint Cruz as a flip flopper who will say anything to get elected, as he tries to maintain his front-runner status. “So, he’ll take NY money; he’ll take a big loan from Goldman Sachs, and then he turns around and attacks the people of NY”. In regards to their tight battle when it comes to the polls, Cruz stated that Trump is a bit “rattled” with the results most especially in some areas wherein Cruz would take the lead, “I guess as conservatives continue to unite behind our campaign as his poll numbers continue to go down, that seems to be – he’s a little testy”.
Christie added that if Cruz had such a problem with “New York values” he should return the millions he has raised from New Yorkers.
‘They’re not Iowa values and they’re not New Hampshire values, ‘ Cruz offered.
“It funds Obamacare, it funds the Syrians refugees and people coming over the boarder, I don’t know what they were thinking”, said Trump.
Evangelical voters, who are heavily represented in Iowa’s Republican electorate, were even more predisposed toward Cruz’s values: 95 percent found them attractive. And the entire NY times attack – is that I disclosed that loan on one filing with the United States Senate, that was a public filing.
On “This Week”, Trump went after Cruz for his stance on immigration. “Ignore what all of us say… look to action”, said Cruz.
“At the end of the day the American people will decide who is telling the truth, who is, in fact, been a consistent conservative, not who has adopted conservative language on the campaign trails, but who has walked the walk”, Cruz said.
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Rubio called out leading candidates, real-estate mogul Donald Trump and Texas Sen.
