The chances of endorsing Cruz were bolstered when Perkins’ close friend from their days in Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, dropped out of the race.
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Rick Tyler, a Cruz spokesman, told NBC News just last week that Cruz “is for eliminating all energy-specific subsidies”, not just the RFS but oil and other sources as well.
Ted Cruz isn’t commenting on remarks the New York Times reports he made at a private fundraiser criticizing Republican opponents Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
“I’m leading big in New Hampshire”. I hope so, he’ll fall like all others. Marco Rubio, potentially well placed to pick up the support of center-right Republican voters who are looking for someone to stop Trump and Cruz at nearly any cost.
The Cruz critics say he has shifted his positions on foreign policy in a search for political advantage.
“The Establishment’s only hope: Trump & me in a cage match”. He went on to say “Sorry to disappoint – realDonaldTrump is terrific”.
Trump retweeted the message much later in the day.
Over dinners and phone calls, Perkins has become one of Cruz’s few defenders in a city that harbors significant ill-will for his scorched-earth Republicanism.
Cruz’s campaign has theorized that wooing the grasstops will pay off with the grassroots, and targeted more than 400 of the evangelical movement’s top leaders.
“I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out”. Tearing each other down could aid some of their rivals, such as Sen.
But Friday night, Trump was done holding back the insults. With activist networks quick to follow their example, the field generals can train their men to vote for candidates like Cruz in Iowa and SC, the two states where the Texan thinks his profile will play well with their large born-again Christian bases. Thursday morning Bob Vander Plaats, President and CEO of the FAMiLY Leader, threw his support behind the junior senator from Texas.
Trump also seemed to question Cruz’s appeal to evangelicals in Iowa, speculating he may not be able to relate to the influential voting bloc due to his Cuban heritage.
But the campaign is also preparing for the possibility that Trump will pounce if Cruz starts to seriously threaten his front-runner status. We have done our homework. It isn’t impossible to imagine a winning path, but it’s a narrow, rocky one. Many Republicans seeking the White House want a tougher approach in the Middle East, including more ground troops and a no-fly zone over Syria. “Because that’s very anti-Iowa”, Trump said.
“Ultimately, Trump will falter”, Goidel said.
“Judgment is a question for all candidates for president of the United States”.
And both are riding a wave of momentum as retired neurosurgeon Ben Carsoncontinues sinking in the polls. “But I think we’re going to do great, we are doing great with Evangelicals”.
“Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button?” he continued.
‘Now that’s a question of strength, but it’s also a question of judgment.
Cruz’ December polling average is 15 percent in SC, while Carson sits at 14.5 percent, and Rubio is averaging 12.5 percent.
But the signs that the bonhomie between the two men may be at risk have been increasing lately. Before this recent poll, Trump had bee pulling in between 20 and 33 percent support. So the higher the chances of a Cruz-Trump showdown, the higher Cruz’s chances.
Trump’s criticism of Cruz on ethanol echoes that of America’s Renewable Future, an advocacy group in Iowa that has been hammering Cruz for his opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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The pair appeared at the same event in Washington in September to slam the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal, spreading mutual admiration and sharing the spotlight at the rally, but it appears that times may be changing.
