After Donald Trump’s attack on Cruz based on his Canadian background which he said may made Cruz illegitimate to be the USA president, Senator Cruz has reacted and vilify the real estate mogul by accusing him of possessing “New York values”.
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Cruz accused Trump of flip-flopping on the issue, as it was not a concern until the senator’s poll numbers began to rise.
Cruz also noted some “birther theories” say a candidate must have two parents born on US soil to be eligible to run.
Trump repeated his more recent concern that Cruz, born in Canada to an American mother, might not meet the constitutional qualifications to be president, which requires the chief executive to be a “natural-born” citizen.
With less than three weeks until Iowa’s leadoff caucuses, the renewed focus on the two candidates leading most preference polls suggests the overall shape of the 2016 contest may be solidifying – much to the dismay of Republican officials who fear neither Trump nor Cruz is electable in a general election.
Of course, the default position by all the candidates was to rail against lame-duck president Barack Obama, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, “political correctness” and current immigration, foreign, fiscal and gun policy. Marco Rubio said, “When I’m president… we’re going to win the war on ISIS”.
Republican voters almost mirror independents and the broader electorate in their belief that Cruz can not hold the White House, with 27 percent of all voters and 28 percent of independents responding he should be disqualified. “But if that is the best hit New York Timeshas got, they better go back to the well”. Reporter: Well, look, both of them, Cruz and trump had their best debates of the campaign. “I opposed and oppose legalization and citizenship”, said Cruz.
The New York Daily News wants to make sure Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz meets the city’s official bird.
Chris Christie and Marco Rubio went head-to-head over Christie’s record in New Jersey.
King has campaigned with Cruz across the early voting state of Iowa.
Reminded that he once called Trump and his proposal unhinged, Bush replied: “Yeah, they are unhinged”.
“I’m not going to be taking legal advice from Donald Trump”, Cruz retorted.
“You know, I think most people know exactly what New York values are”, said Cruz, who added that people in New York City are socially liberal. And it was with us for months, the smell, the air.
“Since September, the Constitution hasn’t changed”, Cruz said. Put differently, Republicans are beginning to prepare for a world where Donald Trump, celebrity nativist, is their leader.
He then turned around a Trump attack on him, saying, “Not a lot of conservatives come out of Manhattan”, an apparent reference to Trump telling crowds that “not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba”.
Trump took flack from every other candidate on the stage over his controversial call for a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States, but the tycoon remained unbowed, noting that his popularity in the country rose after announcing the plan.
“What kind of signal does that send to the rest of the world?” said Bush, who has struggled to gain any momentum in the race and often appeared overshadowed Thursday night.
While President Obama’s State of the Union dominated the news cycle, it was the temporary arrest of ten USA sailors by the Iranian government that led Texas Sen.
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“We can defeat Hillary Clinton because she is a disaster”, he said.
