“This has not been a typical race by any sense”, Cruz said at CNN’s SC town hall ahead of Saturday’s Republican primary.
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Ted Cruz said Wednesday night that he “laughed out loud” when he learned of the cease-and-desist letter Donald Trump’s campaign sent his team for running an ad highlighting his opponent’s former position on abortion rights.
“I have to say to Mr. Trump you have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life”, Cruz said at a press conference in SC.
Cruz said a lawsuit against the ad has no chance, and said he would like to take Trump’s deposition himself. Even in the annals of frivolous lawsuits this takes the cake.
Cruz has determined that he would not back down in spite of Trump’s attacks.
Mr Cruz also referred to threats by Mr Trump to sue him over an advertisement suggesting that the property magnate is, or at the very least was, pro-choice. Cruz has also not forgotten his rivalry with Rubio and continues to sett his sights on Marco Rubio’s immigration record.
“I wanted somebody with fight, I wanted somebody with passion, I wanted somebody who had the conviction to do the right thing, but I wanted somebody humble enough to remember he works for all the people”, Haley said.
Rubio insisted, however, that his escalating feud with Cruz was “not the core of my campaign”.
“It’s hard for me to be lectured to by a gifted young guy who thinks going to committee hearings means you know something about the world”, Bush said in Summerville.
At a town hall meeting in Summerville, Bush took advice from the audience on how he might better conduct his campaign. Rubio is now within striking distance of the Texan, with 16.5 percent of the average of Real Clear Politics polls to Cruz’s 16.8 percent.
On whether he would, in the past year of his own presidency, pick a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “I probably would take the opportunity to nominate someone”.
“Mr. Trump’s implausible claim that he is pro-life doesn’t meet a reality test”, said Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler.
“If you say something that isn’t true and you say it over and over and you know it’s not true, it must be a lie”, Rubio said.
Former US president GeorgeWBush, campaigning for his brother for the first time, told a raucous crowd that Jeb has the temperament and backbone to be commander in chief. He accused Cruz supporters of using “push polls” and creating a fake Facebook page wrongly claiming that South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy had switched his endorsement from the Florida senator to Cruz.
As for his Senate colleagues, Cruz said some may not like him because he serves the interests of his constituents, not fellow senators. Bernie Sanders. Saturday’s Nevada caucuses are next for them, with a SC primary on February 27.
Nikki Haley is endorsing Marco Rubio ahead of Saturday’s first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary.
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Trump, meanwhile, has relentlessly knocked Cruz in interviews, speeches and on Twitter, calling the Texas senator a “liar” and “unstable”.
