The exchange shows how – at least in public – Cruz has repeatedly sought to avoid open conflict with Trump, with the hopes of not alienating any of the mogul’s followers who could be wooed to support his candidacy if Trump eventually dropped out. “Trump gets away with his mistakes, such is the bond of loyalty his support base has for him that he gets away with them and I don’t think he’s made that many, don’t misunderstand”, Rush said (bolding is mine).
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Limbaugh said on his show Monday that “even people who are not particularly aligned with Cruz on the right have gotta be curious about this because this is no different than what the media would say about Ted Cruz”.
“He’s going to have to finesse it in a way that he’s not insulting, but rather genuine”, Mueller said about any Cruz attacks on Trump.
Cruz has, until now, avoided criticizing Trump publicly. Among those with a college degree, support for Trump fell by 10 points, from 41 percent to 31 percent.
The Texas senator is challenging Trump’s lead in the kickoff Iowa caucuses, and he has the money, campaign infrastructure and conservative appeal to compete deep into the GOP primary season. With voters increasingly concerned about terrorism after this fall’s attacks in Paris and California, look for Rubio to try to position himself as more knowledgeable on national security than Trump and more aggressive on surveillance issues than Cruz.
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Two polls late last week found Cruz was leading in Iowa, the first time any candidate besides Trump or neurosurgeon Ben Carson had led in the state.
“We have had a very good relationship”, Trump told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends Weekend” on Saturday.
While the political world is playing up some of the (minor) jabs between Trump and Cruz, the real action in tomorrow night’s debate might be Rubio vs. Cruz. “In the case of Sen”. He said he was taken aback by the backlash: “I don’t know how to comprehend that”.
One the democratic side, Hillary Clinton was in the Sooner State last week, and now a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds Clinton would trounce both Cruz and Trump in a general election matchup, but would lose to Sen. Marco Rubio has 10%, which puts him in fourth place – the same spot he held in October.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the meeting of the New England Police Benevolent Association in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mike Huckabee is in Nevada ahead of tomorrow’s debate…
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Trump was quick to jump on the news of the audio tape.
