Christie knocks Cruz, Rubio on experience issue

Many religious conservatives at this church say they like what they see in Cruz.

Cruz, who is gaining traction in the polls and is now second place in Iowa with around 20 percent of the vote, told Mario about his campaign strategy, “You know, we very consciously have focused this campaign on building it slowly and steadily…”

“Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America”, the 44-year-old mused.

“When you have the world looking at us and would like to destroy us as quickly as possible, I err on the side of security”, he said. “You put 50 cents in and voilà”, the senator said to laughs.

“New is great until you need experience – until the really tough moment comes”, Christie said in reference to Cruz and Rubio, both of whom are first-term senators. Cruz seized the opportunity to share some unexpected rhetoric, calling the controversy surrounding Republicans and birth control “an utterly made-up nonsense issue”.

And on Monday, Cruz heaped some praise on Trump: “Listen, I like Donald Trump”. “As Cruz tries to police women’s health care decisions and deny a war on women, Hillary Clinton will fight every day to protect them against this seemingly endless Republican assault”.

“The Obama, Clinton economy is a disaster and their foreign policies is even worse and people are ready to get back to the common sense principles that built America”, said Senator Cruz.

“I won’t do the debate unless they pay me five million dollars all of which money goes to wounded warriors or to the vets… what do you think?”

“Ted Cruz’s track record has a lot to attack, with the government shutdown, but that’s not to say Ted Cruz can’t win a general election”, Skelley said.

Trump predicted the television pundits will call him “chicken” if he carries out his threat, but he attached little value to the opinions of the “talking heads, who are not smart people at all”.

Abortion is the issue, according to Cruz, not contraception.

“I think that would be fine, as far as I’m concerned”.

The bill has met with opposition from Senate Democrats, who support the idea but do not support the language of the bill, which doesn’t require insurance companies to continue covering the cost of birth control if it’s supplied over-the-counter. Cruz has had trouble securing the “outsider” vote, considering the high poll numbers of Donald Trump and Ben Carson, and he has alienated the Republican establishment with his actions in Congress and controversial viewpoints.

Such incendiary flourishes, injecting urgency and drama in his campaign, are nothing new to Cruz, who regularly takes his attacks on President Barack Obama to the next level.

Cruz talked for more than an hour, and then fielded questions from the audience.