“Ted’s not a person that’s liked”.
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Real-estate mogul Donald Trump unloaded on Sen. And Cruz rejected Trump’s self-comparison to Ronald Reagan, saying he was “pretty sure” Reagan never supported or made large donations to Democrats.
Now, Trump’s attacks on Cruz are even more extreme.
Below them in the polls, the wide field of GOP candidates is competing for the rest, with Florida Sen.
Several of Trump’s projects may have filed for financial bankruptcy in the past, but his ad hominem attacks on other candidates, women, members of the press, the disabled, Muslims and Hispanics show that now he should file for moral bankruptcy. “I think that was very un-American”.
“It certainly has gotten really nasty, really quick”, he said.
But it is in Iowa, 1,100 miles away, where Cruz is betting his campaign. “There’s a competition for evangelical voters”.
But in New Hampshire, Cruz is spending just $80,000 per week, with his PAC spending little money on the radio, a sign that the Texas conservative’s strategy rests heavily on doing well in the first and third nominating contests.
“He needs to appeal to a broader audience”, the 57-year-old Charron said, sitting in a booth at Lindy’s as she waited with her college-aged daughter for Cruz to arrive. “But they’ve stormed back in 2016 because of these candidates”.
He spent a significant chunk of his rally bashing Cruz – calling him two-faced while questioning his eligibility to serve as president as well as his defense of not disclosing loans he took around his 2012 Senate campaign.
Trump and Cruz are locked in a fight over disenchanted conservatives. “But look, Ted Cruz has a problem”.
“He said with being a Canadian citizen, he said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know that”, Trump told an audience at an Iowa campaign event. “Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him”.
After one recent Twitter bombast from Trump, Cruz needled his competitor over his acidic blasts.
A plurality of New Hampshire’s GOP voters said foreign policy and national security remains the most important issue, though that level has dropped since December. He’d also win a head-to-head match against Democrat Hillary Clinton. But with polling indicating those candidates could split the vote, and that Trump will win New Hampshire, these leading establishment figures have been debating their best course.
Since then, Trump hasn’t helped solidify his conservative image. It’s because he embodies NY in all its ostentation and swagger.
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Payne called that response a mistake.
