Cruz has studiously avoided publicly criticizing the Republican frontrunner, and Trump had previously spared Cruz from his trademark attacks. The Cruz campaign is gaming out possible ways that Trump could attack Cruz, according to the aide. “But I like him nevertheless”. “My approach to Trump has been the same as my approach to every other Republican candidate, which is I’m not interested in personal insults and mudslinging”. Cruz also secured the endorsement of an influential Iowa evangelical leader Thursday. “Who understands the threats we face”, said Cruz at the fundraiser.
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“Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button?” he continued.
Though Cruz also said he “like(s) and respect(s)” Trump and Carson, he questioned their fitness to lead the country. “But I think we’re going to do great, and we are doing great with evangelicals”. A test will come Friday night as Trump holds a rally in Des Moines.
Cruz has been trying to coalesce the conservative and evangelical votes in nationwide and the state and in Iowa, these sanctions could help. “Now it looks like some of the media are getting exhausted of just letting him talk”. Trump predicted Cruz would “fall like all others”.
Cruz responded not with a knockout but with a nuzzle.
Cruz, however, refuses to be pulled into a “cage match”. “Without this dynamic, the underlying fundamentals appear to favor Cruz and Rubio”, said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
The persisting problem for Republicans opposed to Trump or Cruz, however, is that there has not been consolidation around an alternative to them. “The No. 1, 2 and 3 problems are Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump”.
One friendly re-tweet didn’t mean Donald Trump wasn’t ready and willing to go after Sen.
The Real Clear Politics polling average shows Trump at 30.4 – his nearest competitor, Ted Cruz, coming in at about half that number, 15.6. “I don’t believe either one of them is going to be our president”. Both have centered their campaigns as counters to the so-called “Establishment” in Washington and preached hardline stances on matters like immigration and national security.
He added, “I believe gravity will bring both of those campaigns down” and “the lion’s share of their supporters come to us”. Normally, Cruz is not shy about calling out apostates.
“As I’m looking ahead to Vegas and our Republican debate, how do you think the dynamic between those two, between Cruz and Trump, will play out for all of us to see?”
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz speaks with Bob Vander Plaats at the Presidential Family Forum. Now that’s a question of strength, but it’s also a question of judgment.
So this is no small act of restraint. “Ted Cruz, a man of principle we can all count on to give his all to the cause of marriage and religious freedom”. He had no strategy, they argued. “They are being more aggressive and more forthright in challenging him”.
“Sen. Cruz has not only signed NOM’s presidential marriage pledge committing to take specific actions as President, but he has personally authored the pending federal marriage amendment to restore the right of states to define marriage as one man/one woman”, said Brian Brown, the president of the group.
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However, Cruz has not comments back to Mr. Trump.
