Grassley, who did not endorse Trump, has introduced several other candidates campaigning in Iowa.
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He also loaned Cruz the compass Washington used during the Revolutionary War.
“He showed his toughness and we need somebody tough”, he said.
He derided Trump as “a guy who has a bunch of strip clubs in casinos”, someone who projects nothing more than “showman faith” (he alluded to Trump’s unconventional pronunciation of 2 Corinthians). Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks during a campaign stop at Lino’s Restaurant in Sanbornville, N.H. Cruz is dreaming of a face-off with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, even before the first primary votes are cast.
“You know, the Word tells us: ‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning”, Cruz said, quoting from Psalm 30, to affirmative shouts and applause from the crowd. But, look; Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don’t say.
In fact, Donald Trump blasted Glenn Beck late last week after learning Beck would be speaking at the above-noted Cruz rally, anticipating an alliance between the senator and Mr. Beck.
Yet Trump is still going, and he has a legitimate shot at the Republican nomination. Trump touted the endorsement he got Tuesday from Tea Party icon Sarah Palin and dismissed Beck as a “loser”.
Even as he’s taken up the anti-establishment mantle, Trump has made some quiet overtures to GOP powerbrokers.
The new poll, therefor, marks a distinct turn in the race, making a stronger case for a Trump win in Iowa.
With obvious exaggeration, he charged that one Republican candidate, “for over 60 years of his life”, supported so-called partial-birth abortion and a “Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine for all”. Ted Cruz, the businessman’s closest rival. The stars of the oft-maligned Canadian grunge band grew up in Alberta, the same province where Cruz was born. Unlike Cruz, Trump supports a special force to round up those here illegally and send them back, but he had said that the “good ones” will be welcomed back to the USA through legal channels. “He’s gone down big in the polls”, Trump said.
Beck said he has never endorsed a candidate before, but was moved to do so by Cruz.
“I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively”.
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Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the only other Republican presidential aspirant to get pass the double digit support with 11 per cent, Fox News said.
