And Trump has often cited Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who said that although Cruz is generally accepted to be a natural-born citizen, no court has definitively ruled on the question. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue [New York] and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”, he said.
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“We’d better stop hoping for something else and accept the possibility that he’s our nominee and be prepared to rally around him if that’s the case”, said Fred Malek, a top Republican presidential fundraiser.
Last month, he appeared to consider whether he would kill journalists, as Russian President Vladimir Putin – whom Trump defended – has been accused of doing. The frontrunner in the race to be named the Republican candidate for the White House, Trump made the comments at a campaign rally in Iowa. The urgency was palpable Saturday as Cruz unveiled the endorsement of conservative radio host Glenn Beck, who pummeled Trump as an unprincipled narcissist and warned he would be a “snowball to hell” if he won the caucuses. Ted Cruz, the businessman’s closest rival.
He was speaking at Dordt College, in Sioux City, Iowa. Beck praised the Texas senator’s commitment to principles of the right and repeatedly jabbed Trump from afar.
For his part, as rumors began to swirl earlier this week about a Beck endorsement, Trump took to Twitter to call the media personality a “wacko”.
This week, the National Review, a venerable conservative magazine, launched a special issue “Against Trump”, calling on fellow Republicans to reject his candidacy.
“Cruz did not renounce his Canadian citizenship as a US Senator- only when he started to run for #POTUS”. Trump is 69 and unlikely to have had positions on abortion and health care as a child. It is not a sign of strength when you say that a POW was a loser because they got caught. But when asked to clarify his comments after the rally, he refused to comment. “I will let Donald speak for himself”.
“I will say I have no intention of shooting anybody in this campaign”, the senator deadpanned. “If I thought it was going to matter, maybe I would do it, maybe I wouldn’t”.
“Complaining and being frustrated alone will not be enough”, Rubio said. On the Democratic side, the Register picked Hillary Clinton.
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Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was the third with 9.7 percent, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was the choice of 9.2 percent of those surveyed and Florida Senator Marco Rubio received 7.2 percent support. After the rally in Ankeny, Beck told reporters Trump “might be” unstoppable if he wins the caucuses.
