Defending his wife, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is telling Donald Trump to lay off Heidi Cruz, who the billionaire businessman attacked on Twitter earlier this week.
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“It’s not easy to tick me off. I don’t get angry often”, he told reporters.
“Talk about things that people really care about, and knock this crap off because these are serious times, and you’re not behaving like you want to be president of the United States”, he said.
“Donald, you’re a sniveling coward”, Cruz said.
Since then, Trump’s campaign has defended the tweet. “It is not acceptable for a big, loud NY bully to attack my wife”.
On Tuesday evening, Trump attacked Cruz for the ad, threatening on Twitter, “Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
“This state has a megaphone and a platform”, Cruz said.
Cruz denied having anything to do with the image, which was part of an attack by an anti-Trump Super PAC, Make America Awesome. Wisconsin, which holds its primary on April 5, will award 42 delegates, and a new Emerson College poll shows Cruz leading Trump there by a single point, with Ohio Governor John Kasich trailing both men by double digits.
The latest swipe at Heidi Cruz’s appearance comes after an anti-Trump superPAC ran a Facebook ad campaign in Utah using a photo of Trump’s wife, Melania, a former model, posing partially nude.
“Donald does seem to have an issue with women”.
Cruz, a US senator from Texas, is a staunch social conservative and a divisive figure in the party due to his willingness to criticize the leadership and his prominent role in bringing about a 2013 government shutdown.
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Even as tensions escalated between the two, Cruz has insisted that he would back Trump if he won the nomination because he pledged he would do so at the outset of the Republican race. And there were also indications on Thursday of Trump’s strength in California, where many observers believe he could clinch the nomination by winning its primary on June 7.
