In Iowa, where polls indicate a narrowing race between Trump and Cruz, Trump released his second television ad on Friday, which marks a significant departure from the first one he released earlier this year.
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In a three-way contest featuring the Top 3 Republicans in the poll, Trump gets 40 percent, Cruz 31 percent and Rubio 26 percent, underscoring the overall strengthen out of the outsider/insurgent wing of the Republican Party.
“Back in September, my friend Donald said he had his lawyers look at this from every which way and there was no issue there”. We’re not judgmental, negative and hostile the way Cruz was.
Mark Silk, a professor of religion in public life at Trinity College, said that while he has no reason to believe Cruz is anti-Semitic, “he’s conjuring up an image of a fast-talking, secular, money-preoccupied, media-saturated NY character”. Trump’s mother was born in Scotland.
Trump had probably the best debate performance he’s turned in to date, while the candidates beneath him busied themselves with tearing each other apart in a grim display of prevarication and fearmongering nonsense. “I didn’t care before”. He never had a chance.
Both men traded barbs about choosing each other as their vice presidential pick. “I can beat him one-on-one, and Rubio can’t”. I don’t like that. “And I have to tell you, that was a very insulting statement that Ted made”. I’ll tell you what.
Trump said he’d rather go back to building buildings. In an radio interview on Tuesday for a New Hampshire station, Cruz said rather than playing Born in the United States of America at his rallies he should play New York, New York “because you know Donald comes from New York and he embodies New York values”.
And as the end of the two and a half hour debate neared, Rubio directed his aim at Cruz, which the Texas senator tried to deflect, saying “I appreciate your dumping your oppo research folder on the debate stage”. “I think he owes New Yorkers an apology, not that we want it or we would accept it”.
“He said, ‘I don’t know what New York values are.’ He doesn’t know what New York values are because New York is in many ways the epitome of what formed this nation and what keeps it strong”. That was a dig at Trump’s attack on Cruz’s faith that “not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba”.
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“I find myself for once in agreement with Donald Trump – I think it was right for Donald Trump to defend New York City and to talk about the heroic actions of the people of this city after 9/11”.
