“Donald, you’re a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone”, Cruz told reporters after a factory tour in Dane, Wisconsin, pointing his finger at the cameras for emphasis.
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Trump repeated late Wednesday that he believed Cruz “knew about” the ad, which appeared to be aimed at persuading Mormon women to support Cruz in Tuesday’s Utah primary.
“For the sake of our party and country, we must move to overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena, ” said Bush, who was knocked out of the contest last month.
Even as tensions escalated between the two, Cruz has insisted that he would back Trump if he won the nomination because he pledged he would do so at the outset of the Republican race.
“Meet Melania Trump, your next first lady”, read the online ad, posted on Facebook by the group Make America Awesome.
Cruz said the outcome of Wisconsin’s April 5 primary will have a “powerful effect” on the GOP race, calling it a critical “neck and neck” battleground. “What’s happening now is, I don’t think Donald Trump has any ground game”. By remaining viable, Kasich could be gathering up delegates that Cruz would otherwise lose to Trump.
Trump has a substantial lead in the delegate chase for the Republican nomination.
Clinton – and Trump’s Republican rivals – questioned the GOP front-runner’s temperament and readiness to serve as commander in chief, and condemned his calls to diminish USA involvement with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Asked by Fox Business host Lou Dobbs if he was going to raise the standard of a campaign that had become “so unseemly”, Trump responded: “I agree with you … As we stand here today, there is only one campaign that has beaten Donald Trump over and over and over again”, he said.
FILE – Republican presidential candidate John Kasich addresses supporters in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, March 7, 2016. When Walker dropped his presidential bid in September he urged others to join him so it would be easier to defeat Trump.
“It would be a serious mistake to stumble into another costly ground war in the Middle East”, she said, though both men have hedged on whether they would argue for sending U.S. troops.
Cruz also defended his call to empower law enforcement to patrol Muslim neighborhoods following Tuesday’s terror attacks in Belgium.
Which was, itself, a response to an anti-Trump superPAC’s attempts to smear Trump by circulating a nude photo Trump’s wife Melania had posed for.
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Ted Cruz embraced Jeb Bush’s endorsement on Wednesday and claimed he could build a broad coalition capable of beating Hillary Clinton in the fall – if only he can climb past the surging Republican presidential front-runner, Donald Trump.
