“Hey I lived in New York City and Manhattan all my life, so my views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa”, Trump said on the “Meet the Press” interview, a quote spliced into the Cruz campaign ad. “I have standing to sue”, Trump told his supporters.
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Speaking a week before Iowans head to the caucuses, Cruz characterized the race between himself and Trump as “an absolute dead heat”.
And among Iowa Republicans who have actually caucused before, Trump’s lead is much smaller.
Trump and Cruz, Trump’s chief obstacle to a victory in Iowa, held competing rallies across the state while in New Hampshire, other candidates battled for votes in that state’s February 9 first-in-the-nation primary for the November 8 election. Three super PACs, Keep The Promise, Stand For Truth and Courageous Conservatives released ads targeting Trump Monday. Damningly, she says, “he doesn’t have no heart, that man”.
Cruz responded to Trump at an event in Ankeny, where he picked up the endorsement of conservative firebrand Glenn Beck, a counterweight of sorts to Trump’s endorsement by 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Ted Cruz, now the real estate developer’s No. 1 rival for the Republican presidential nomination.
The reality TV star was in a close race with Ted Cruz, but the CBS survey has Trump at 39 percent, Cruz at 34 percent and Rubio third at 13 percent.
The RealClearPolitics polling averages show Trump leading Cruz by 5 points in Iowa and by double-digits in SC. Ted Cruz against Trump in an interview on “New Day” on CNN, explaining that he valued Cruz’s constitutional principles opposite to what he sees as the potential abuse of executive power by Trump. Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democratic socialist. The ad replays four times Trump’s remark that “I am pro-choice in every respect”. “Give me a break”, said Trump.
Cruz’s reluctance to bash his opponent too directly reflects the delicate balance both he and Trump are trying to strike. This is especially true if Christie, Bush and Kasich drop out after New Hampshire and Rubio can claim a majority of their supporters.
“I woke up this morning and the headlines read, the ‘Civil War of the Republican Party, ‘” Kaufmann said.
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Beck was planning to campaign in Iowa on Saturday for Texas Sen. Sanders told the Washington Post “our campaign is not going to simply sit back and accept all of these attacks”.
