Just days ahead of the SC primary, Republican presidential candidates were preparing for a town hall meeting in the Palmetto State.
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Trump threatened Cruz with a lawsuit over that and other ads, stating in a Facebook post that Cruz’s claims “are totally untrue and completely outrageous”.
Cruz, who graduated from Harvard Law School and previously worked as Texas’s top lawyer, said he would like to take Trump’s deposition himself and that a lawsuit against the ad has no chance.
Cruz began Wednesday’s news conference by playing one of the clips from the ad, a 1999 Trump interview with Tim Russert on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
In its own letter, the Cruz campaign called the threats “laughable” and said: “Are you seriously suggesting that the voter should not be allowed to hear what Mr. Trump has said or know what Mr. Trump has done?”
During his 20-minute speech, Bush did not mention Donald Trump for once, but he left no doubt that apart from giving a boost to his brother’s troubled campaign, his campaign debut was also meant to deliver a blow to the NY billionaire developer notorious for his blunt language and dismissal of ‘political correctness’.
“One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him”, Trump said.
Cruz called it “a remarkable contention” that his campaign’s ad featuring a video of Trump speaking on national television could be considered defamation. He also announced plans to run the contested ad more frequently.
“We weren’t safe. That was the greatest attack in the history of the United States”, he said.
According to The Hill, Donald Trump denied all of these accusations by Ted Cruz. “Time will tell, Teddy”, he said in a statement Wednesday.
She’ll be on the campaign trail with Rubio through Saturday’s primary.
However, Cruz may be making the smart choice by aiming his fire at Trump, added Haynes, founding partner of Washington-based Purple Strategies: “Punch up toward the guy with higher unfavorables and more votes to take. America can’t afford more politicians like Ted Cruz who will easily sacrifice principle for political gain”, said Joe Pounder, Rubio spokesman.
“Funny that Jeb didn’t want help from his family in his failed campaign and didn’t even want to use his last name…Then mommy, now brother!” he tweeted on Monday. (Cruz said Trump and the people he contributed to were a “direct cause” of Obamacare.) Cruz showed the list of supporters on large-print poster board.
Sisters Joan Carter and Jane Breland, who attended the Columbia event wearing Cruz buttons, said Trump is the one “stirring the pot” against the Texas senator.
Trump claims that Cruz is probably not eligible to be president because the senator was born in Canada to an American mother.
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Senator Marco Rubio, seeking a resurrection after finishing fifth in New Hampshire, is third at 14.3 percent, followed by 10.5 percent for Ohio Governor John Kasich, whose impressive second place New Hampshire finish was helping him surge here.
