Cruz supporters, long accustomed to the senator’s anti-aggression pact with Trump, appeared pleased with his increasingly aggressive stance toward the billionaire. Marco Rubio of Florida and retired Dr. Ben Carson were in third and fourth place, respectively. At the same time, the “establishment lane” saw a five-point decline in tea party support. NPR’s Don Gonyea is on the road with Donald Trump today, and he’s with us now from Pella, Iowa, to talk about the race. In response, Trump has called for fewer gun restrictions and a harder stance on terrorism.
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The businessman, whose Trump Tower stands on the major Manhattan thoroughfare, cracked the joke Saturday to a receptive audience at the Christian college.
US Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at Exeter Town Hall January 20, 2016 in Exeter, New Hampshire.
“Look, Glenn’s a loser”.
“I will say I have no intention of shooting anybody in this campaign”, the senator deadpanned. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters”, he said.
One of her latest ads in Iowa shows images of Trump at one of his rallies and a gun-toting Cruz, vowing to prevent Republicans from “ripping all of our progress away”.
“Many of us are angry”.
At the beginning of Beck’s remarks he said he wasn’t making an endorsement, but rather talking about the principles that are important to making an endorsement.
Two anti-establishment candidates – Trump and Cruz – have dominated polling in Iowa for a couple months – leaving more centrist contenders in the dust.
But can Trump really win the Republican nomination?
Evangelicals are very conservative on social issues, opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, and defending the role of religion in society. They’re not sending you.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen.
Supporters of Trump’s candidacy for president have remained loyal regardless of where the campaign has gone.
Beck is among almost two dozen conservative thinkers who penned anti-Trump essays for National Review magazine – a hit Trump to referred to repeatedly at the rally.
Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation.
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“There are understandable reasons for his eminence… but he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries”. As the voting approaches February 1, Republicans have been asking themselves: Trump or Cruz? Veteran senator Bob Dole, the party’s presidential candidate in 1996, has the same opinion.
