On Fox News Sunday, Cruz chastised Trump over denying that a more liberal viewpoint pervades in the city.
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Meanwhile, insiders worry that a ticket topped by an ideologue such as Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will jeopardize the party’s chances to win up and down the November ballot.
Cruz took Trump to task over his past support for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $700 billion Congress approved to help stabilize the banks in 2008, and his early backing of universal healthcare coverage.
CHRIS KEANE/REUTERS Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump trashed Cruz again for his NY burn in an interview on Sunday.
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump lashed into each other Saturday, with the Texas senator unloading on Trump’s record, temperament and fitness to be commander in chief.
Pressed by the host about whether he’d file a lawsuit, because he’d have standing an opposing candidate, Trump said, “I’d like to talk to Ted about that, let’s see how he’d feel about that”.
“Donald explained that he was very, very pro-choice and supported partial-birth abortion”.
But speaking to reporters at a church not far from Charlotte on Saturday, Cruz, who once declined to attack Trump, shed any caution he may have had about laying into his top rival.
Several GOP presidential candidates have slammed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for her role before and after the attack in Benghazi, saying she knew from the start it was an act of terrorism.
“My views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa”, Mr Trump said at the time. “How about his fundraising and how about when he does his personal financial disclosure form, and he doesn’t put on that he’s borrowing money from Goldman Sachs?”
To review, Ted Cruz was born in Canada in 1970, where his Cuban father was working at the time.
“He’s a nasty guy”, Mr. Trump said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”. “He was so nice to me”.
“I apologize to all the pro-life and pro-marriage and pro-second amendment New Yorkers who were told by Governor Cuomo that they have no place in NY because that’s not who New Yorkers are”.
“That formulation didn’t come from me”.
“Those are you words, Jeff”, Cruz told his host, only adding that he “likes” and “respects” him.
“I think it’s very exciting, I think people in New Hampshire have a great role in this”, said Goffstown resident Steve Brzozowski.
Attend any Trump rally – the one in Claremont attracted a thousand people on a ten-degree night, and it doesn’t take long to find Republicans like Alex Carpenter, voters who say they’re through toeing the party line.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls indicates Trump is leading Cruz nationally, 34.5 percent to 19.3 percent.
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Kyle Reagan, 46, of Amherst, N.H., said he’s voting for Cruz because he’s a “constitutional conservative” who “says what he means and means what he says”.
