The hope was that after an establishment candidate emerged, the party could get behind him and crush the outsiders.
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The CNN poll sampled the opinions of 2,002 Iowa adults between January 15 and 20, including 266 likely Republican caucus-goers, with a margin of error within the party sample of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
The comments came not long after the conservative magazine National Review published its latest issue online featuring a collection of scathing anti-Trump essays from noted conservatives, underscoring the deep resistance that remains to his unorthodox candidacy, despite his commanding lead in early polls.
The news agency shared that Cruz was even in the spotlight for being a negative aspect of the Republicans back when he confronted President Barack Obama regarding his health care law, which resulted in a partial government shutdown. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah Told the New York Times.
Donald Trump Jr., right, with his father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, center, and his brother, Eric Trump, left, during a campaign rally on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Las Vegas. Bob Dole, R-Kan., said Cruz would be “cataclysmic” for the party, and North Carolina Sen.
The current Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has been more subtle but just as cutting. She campaigned for Cruz when he ran for the Senate in 2012, and he’s said her support was instrumental in his victory.
“But I don’t know that either of those things ultimately changes the reality that having either Trump or Cruz would present a serious obstacle to not just winning the White House but holding the Senate as well”. As hard-nosed and independent as he seems, his track record reveals he is much more malleable and they’d have a better chance to influence him than Cruz. It lives on making deals. He has insisted that senators cast votes for or against raising of the debt limit, instead of hiding behind procedural maneuvers that shield these votes from public scrutiny.
Trump has dodged the question of whether he might name Palin as his running mate should he win the nomination, saying he didn’t think she wanted to reprise her 2008 role as a vice presidential nominee.
All of this is deliberate. Amanda Carpenter, Cruz’s former communications director, largely agrees.
Burr was responding to an AP story by reporter Erica Werner about Cruz’s unpopularity with fellow Republican senators.
Other conservatives are less charitable.
Cruz wasn’t Trump’s only target, as he called former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush a “lost soul” and mocking the lavish spending by the political committee supporting him given how little momentum they have produced for his campaign.
A CNN/ORC poll on Thursday said Trump had taken a solid lead over Cruz in Iowa, with 37 percent to 26 percent for Cruz. “I think America would be in trouble if any of them got to be president of the United States”. Dole has been critical of Cruz-even telling NBC News a year ago that he would “oversleep” on election day if the senator was on the ballot-and views him as an extremist. Ayotte, who is seeking reelection, has remained neutral in the presidential primary.
He said establishment Republicans are becoming amenable to Trump because “he will continue the cronyism, the corporate welfare”.
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Trump, Graham said, “is the most unprepared person I’ve ever met to be commander in chief”.
