For Cruz, this comes after a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Iowa Poll released on Saturday revealed a 10-point lead (31 percent to 21 percent) over Trump. “I don’t see his numbers going down, I see them going up”.
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Trump said he wants people to compare his “deal making” record with Cruz’s Senate record. “It’s a strong temperament, but you know when they chop heads off of Christians in the Middle East, and other people also”. In an interview with EWTN News last week, Cruz said he is convinced that 2016 is going to be a religious liberty election, and that he will push for legislation to protect people’s rights against any possible discrimination or persecution from the federal government.
By Sunday evening Trump still seemed miffed at Cruz, tweeting, “I was disappointed that Ted Cruz would speak behind my back, get caught, and then deny it. Well, welcome to the wonderful world of politics!”
When the school bully starts glowering in your direction, the worst thing you can do is hold up your hands and say, “Please don’t hit me”.
“I don’t think he has the right temperament”, Mr Trump told Fox News Sunday.
Asked by CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday morning why voters should prefer him to Cruz, Trump said, “Because I’m more capable”. After asking Iowans “What the hell are you people doing to me?” and “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” I do not assume he is received the suitable judgment. I have good judgment.
A Monmouth University out Monday showed Cruz with 24 percent of support among likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, 5 points ahead of Trump’s 19 percent.
Clinton said Thursday on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Myers” that Trump’s rhetoric, including a proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States amid recent terrors attacks, “is not only shameful and wrong, it’s unsafe”.
A request for comment from the Cruz campaign went unanswered. In a telephone survey of 450 Republicans who are likely to attend Iowa’s caucuses, Cruz was the pick of 28 percent, with Trump at 26 percent and Rubio tracking in at third with 13 percent.
“If the body of Christ rises up as one and votes our values, we can turn this country around”, Cruz told voters at a forum in Des Moines last month. “And, by the way – and, again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness”. Now Trump appears to have made the decision that Cruz’s inability to make people like him is his biggest vulnerability.
Trump ripped Cruz for parroting even his own most controversial ideas.
On foreign policy, Cruz has denounced Obama for doing too little to fight Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and he says his strategy would be to “carpet-bomb them into oblivion”.
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“He’s been so nice to me”, Trump said.
