While egged on by his crowd in Baton Rouge, La., Trump said Thursday that “I won’t use foul language – I’m just not going to do it…”
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Yesterday, Cruz retweeted a polling story that showed how he, and not Trump, could beat Hillary Clinton in the general election.
This morning, Trump mocked Cruz’s evangelical credentials.
Trump has hammered away at Cruz for being born in Canada before becoming a US resident, which Trump has said means he is ineligible to run for president.
Trump is expected to win in Tuesday’s Granite State contest.
The ad flashes to an October 16 Washington Post article about Trump’s ties to the mob in Atlantic City, and slams the real estate mogul for having “bankrolled politicians to steamroll the little guy – a pattern of sleaze stretching back decades”.
Trump and Cruz are in a tight race in SC heading into the state’s primary later this month.
Ted Cruz (Texas) argued late Wednesday that his Republican presidential rival Donald Trump is running a campaign about nothing.
Eminent domain, the ad stated, is a “fancy term for politicians seizing private property to enroll the fat cats who bankroll them”. Trump’s actual record on the issue is more complicated than Cruz implied. “Trump carries every age group except for the youngest (18-29) where Rubio nudges Trump out by 7 points”, said Matt Towery Sr, a political analyst and pollster. He spent the beginning of his speech discussing the Iowa caucus and his second-place loss to Ted Cruz.
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The advertisement, captured by advertising tracker CMAG/Kantar Media, began airing in the Greenville, South Carolina, media market on Monday evening, the night before the New Hampshire primary.
