“Let me be very clear: I don’t believe Donald Trump is gonna be the nominee, I don’t believe he’s gonna be our president”.
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Ted Cruz spent the weekend campaigning in Iowa with Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, by his side.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told supporters on Monday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is running her presidential campaign as the “condom police” and is trying to “scare a bunch of folks into thinking someone’s going to steal their birth control”.
Cruz adamantly rejects what he calls “amnesty” pushed by Rubio as part of the bill passed by the Senate in 2013 that would have opened up a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants in the country. “He’s doing pretty well and he’s said wonderful things about me and he actually backs anything I do, because we have similar views”.
“The first job of a commander in chief is to protect the safety and security of America, and if the Federal Bureau of Investigation can not tell us whether these refugees are ISIS terrorists, then the Obama-Clinton plan to bring them to America makes no sense whatsoever”, said Cruz. Cruz also will be in Tama at 4:20 p.m.at Casey’s General Store.
While Trump has traded barbs with most of his Republican opponents, he and Cruz have maintained a largely cordial relationship, with the two offering each other praise at various points during the campaign.
Jeb Bush, during an interview a week ago, dinged Cruz in a vote that he said Cruz was insufficiently tough on Islamic extremism.
The real question is: Can he beat frontrunner Donald Trump? At a town hall Monday morning in Coralville, he boasted of resisting “daily invitations” by the reporters to attack Trump, going as far to impersonate an eager journalist promising to set up a “cage match” between the two candidates.
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Several polls how the conservative senator from Texas gaining ground in Iowa, placing second behind Donald Trump. “It’s one of the reasons I love the state of Iowa because in Iowa, y’all take politics seriously”. “That’s just the right spot”.
