In a letter sent by Trump’s lawyer to the Cruz campaign, attorney Jeffrey Goldberg of Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman LLP writes that the attack ad “is not only completely disingenuous, but replete with outright lies, false, defamatory and destructive statements and downright fabrications which you fully know to be untrue, thereby exposing you and the Cruz campaign to liability for damages and other tortious harm”.
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With just days left until the South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary, more candidates made stops throughout the Lowcountry on Wednesday.
Cruz reveled in Trump’s threats, saying he would enjoy trying the case himself if such a lawsuit comes to fruition.
“You look at a guy like Ted Cruz, he’s a nasty guy”, Trump said.
Bush, running fourth in SC and behind Rubio, questioned Rubio’s level of experience after Rubio said Bush did not have foreign policy experience. “I thought it was really painful”.
The remaining candidates – John Kasich, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush – will participate in a similar event Thursday. Cruz says Rubio would have supported “amnesty” for illegal immigrants, which his rival denies. Ted Cruz, with 22 percent.
Rubio would become the nation’s first Hispanic-American president if elected. Major Garrett is in SC.
Carson said he understood why Apple is reluctant to help investigators crack the cell phone of one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino mass shooting.
On whether he’d visit Cuba as president: “Not if it’s not a free Cuba”.
Rubio came in fifth place in the New Hampshire primary on February 9 with 10.6% of the vote, and third place in the Iowa Caucus on February 1 with 23.1% of the vote.
At the beginning of his town hall appearance, Rubio defended accusing Cruz of lying on the campaign trail. In other words, Sen. “And when it’s about your record, you have to clear it up, because if you don’t, then people say, well, then it must be true”.
“So these things are disturbing and they need to be addressed”.
Rubio insisted, however, that his escalating feud with Cruz was “not the core of my campaign”. Rubio is next with a 14 percent level of support.
Haley, the state’s most popular Republican politician in polls and a rising national party star often mentioned as a likely vice presidential pick, was South Carolina’s most coveted Republican endorsement in the 2016 presidential race.
A campaign aide to former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Ms Haley called Mr Bush, also vying for the party nomination, to inform him of her plan to endorse Senator Rubio.
“He is worse in his seventh year than he was in his first”, he said.
Carson, who once topped the polls but has found his support slipping, appeared in the opening hour, saying that if he were in President Barack Obama’s position he would nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died over the weekend. “Never”, Bush said, prompting applause from the group.
The retired neurosurgeon also weighed in Apple and the San Bernardino mass shooting. That was 31 national polls ago.
Haley has been in communication with several of the candidates during the current political season.
Polls open at 7 a.m. on Saturday. And here’s the bottom line: “Whether you agree with (African-Americans who feel mistreated) or not – I happen to have seen this happen – but whether you agree with them or not, if a significant percentage of the American family believes that they are being treated differently than everybody else, we have a problem”.
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“It hasn’t been that great dealing with the press”, he said. The three candidates had similar results on the question of who was trustworthy.
