Palin’s “main impact will be to underscore that not even Ted Cruz’s friends like Ted Cruz”, an Iowa Republican told Politico. CNN has not independently obtained the video.
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‘If I thought it was going to matter, maybe I would do it, maybe I wouldn’t, ‘ he said.
The businessman on Saturday said he was so confident heading into Iowa, that he could ” shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters”.
Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.
US Republican front-runner Donald Trump has expressed confidence that he could push back attempts by his rivals to knock him off his top perch, saying he could stand on New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot somebody” and still not lose voters.
Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation. He has been accused of sexism after his vituperative attack on Megyn Kelly, the Fox TV news host who aroused his ire with tough questioning during a Republican presidential debate.
Beck said he has never endorsed a candidate before, but said the next president must “be Lincoln and he may also have to be Washington”.
He blasted Trump’s past reluctance to strip federal money from Planned Parenthood and cast the billionaire’s plan to deport more than 11 million people who are in country illegally as “amnesty” because he would then let many of them return.
“Ted Cruz wanted her so badly he nearly cried”. He didn’t go as far as endorsing Trump, although he did say, “We have an opportunity once again to make America great again”.
Among Republicans who have voted in the Iowa caucus before, Trump leads with 28 percent over Cruz’s 25 percent. The gap widens substantially between the two men in the New Hampshire and SC primaries with Trump holding more of a commanding lead in those states.
“We need a new George Washington”, he said in a press release.
Trump also boasted of how loyal his supporters appear to be. The Arizona senator said that he “didn’t know” about Cruz’s eligibility to run for president and added, “it’s worth looking into”.
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It is unclear at the moment as to how the above-noted big name endorsements will ultimately affect the outcome of the Iowa caucuses, which will take place on February 1.
