Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears at a campaign rally on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Las Vegas.
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“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters, okay”, Trump said at a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa.
Last August, two white men who allegedly beat a homeless Hispanic man cited Donald Trump’s rhetoric as their motive. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous, Cruz argued that Trump’s plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants is equal to “touchback”.
Donald Trump has a fallback option for his main GOP opponent, Ted Cruz, in case the Texas senator comes up short in his bid to capture the Republican nomination for president of the United States: become Canada’s prime minister. “We’ve got to get things done folks, OK?” Seconds later, Cruz speaks positively of “allowing those who are here illegally to come out of the shadows”, in a 2013 C-SPAN broadcast, and the phrase “PRO AMNESTY” ripples into view. Ted Cruz has recently caught up in the polls in Iowa, where they’re now neck-and-neck in a battle for first place.
But critics point out that Clinton attended Trump’s 2005 wedding (and Bill attended the reception), and that Trump contributed to Clinton’s Senate campaigns and donated to the Clinton Foundation, along with other Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, announcing the news Saturday on social media. Now Republican elected officials are weighing in on the choice that South Carolina Senator and erstwhile presidential candidate Lindsey Graham called “being shot or poisoned”. Cruz has long maintained that the amendment was a “poison pill” meant to derail the legislation.
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“Donald Trump has said he thinks eminent domain is fantastic, and he supports using government power to seize private people’s homes, to give them to giant corporations to say hypothetically build a casino”, Cruz said in Wakefield, the first time that Cruz voluntarily brought up Trump’s record before an audience.
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If other Republicans want to do some damage to Trump’s standing, this is where they need to attack. Everyone understands why, of course – Cruz wanted to position himself to inherit Trump’s voters if/when the tycoon either exhausted of the race, or the voters exhausted of the tycoon.
