Ted Cruz accused “Donald Trump and his henchmen” of spreading lies about his personal life in a story that appeared in the National Enquirer supermarket tabloid on Wednesday.
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In the hypothetical (but very real possibility) of a Trump versus Clinton matchup, more Republican women would be willing to defect to Clinton, and the Democrat would beat Trump among women 58-to-31 percent. And it is, I think, the easiest job in the world, and that is to speak the truth: “what I know about my husband, our family, myself”.
The New York billionaire, however, noted that the Enquirer had accurately reported former presidential candidate John Edward’s affair and he hoped they are not right about Lying Ted Cruz.
Trump is currently leading the Republican pack as he now requires less than 500 delegates to reach the figure if 1,237 necessary to win the party’s presidential nomination. A visibly angry Cruz blasted Trump as a “sniveling coward” and told him to “leave Heidi the hell alone”.
The story does include a quote from Roger Stone, a longtime Trump political adviser who is not employed by the campaign.
In development that saw the U.S. presidential campaign turn from poisonous to squalid, Mr Cruz told reporters that the claims in the National Enquirer were untrue. Bolduan attempts to steer the dialogue to another topic, but Cohen takes the opportunity to dive into the National Enquirer story. Trump also added his own caption to the photo, saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”.
He wrote: “Pic of your wife not from us”.
An anti-Trump political group unveiled a controversial campaign ad ahead of Tuesday’s votes in Arizona and Utah that uses a photograph of Trump’s wife Melania lying provocatively in his custom-fitted jet, naked and handcuffed to a briefcase.
“‘This man would be an embarrassment”, Cruz said. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Trump reportedly said: “Look at that face”.
The exchange came after a back-and-forth about Trump’s retweet of an opinion that his wife, Melania, is more attractive than Heidi Cruz.
At the annual National Republican Congressional Committee dinner Tuesday night, Romney joked about Trump’s foreign-born wives, The Hill reports.
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The saga comes after days during which Cruz and Trump engaged in a spat surrounding their wives – one that raised concern amid Republicans that Trump would drive away female voters if he was the nominee for president.
