Donald Trump: Ted Cruz Warned On Twitter Following Fundraiser Comments (TWEETS)

Trump’s attacks come after the New York Times published an audio recording of Cruz speaking to supporters at a private function about the businessman and fellow contender Ben Carson.

Cruz said politicians often viewed ground forces as a display of strength and should instead listen to military experts about what troops are necessary.

“I believe we should focus on the immediate and unambiguous challenge to our security, which is utterly destroying ISIS”. This strategy allows him to both appeal to Trump’s wide base of supporters and to deflect the withering takedowns Trump is known to direct towards his critics.

Last week, Cruz credited his steady rise in the polls to on the ground organization the campaign has put in place in the state. At a Friday. night rally in Iowa, Trump hit opponent Ted Cruz, criticizing him for opposing ethanol subsidies which are very popular within the corn-producing state. I believe that gravity will bring both of those campaigns down.

The Times also notes that Cruz won the support of longtime conservative influencer Richard A Viguerie, who argued that Cruz is “the only candidate who can unite the conservative coalition” in a primary and general election.

Asked about published reports indicating Republican Party leaders have discussed how to manage the Republican National Convention next summer if delegates will be called upon to choose the party’s presidential nominee in a brokered convention, Trump said he expected to know in a month or two if the GOP establishment plans to treat him fairly in the nominating process. Cruz was quoted in the New York Times as having said by two sources.

Among Iowa polls, Cruz’s 21-percentage-point spike since October is the largest surge over that past five presidential campaigns.

Apparently, all it takes for Donald Trump to perform poorly in polls is the mere suggestion that an entire religion should be banned from the country he hopes to run. Cruz is narrow-casting, relying on evangelical and conservative support, as have a number of caucus winners in the recent past.

“Cruz has been working on an important factor in Iowa, which is the evangelicals, and he has an enormous ground game there”, O’Sullivan said. But Vander Platts announced this week that he is supporting Cruz. Neither is met with a lot of enthusiasm, but there is somewhat more anxiety about a Trump presidency (64 percent) than a Clinton one (57 percent).

Ted Cruz nailed an endorsement from a well-known Christian conservative newsmaker Thursday, one more step toward locking up the influential evangelical conservative voting bloc in Iowa. “And ultimately the decision is, who has the right judgment and the right experience to serve as Commander in Chief?” Cruz said in the statement.

‘And every one of us who is running is being assessed by the voters under that metric. Cruz will have many handicaps in doing so: He’s more aggressively a factional candidate than either Santorum or Huckabee were (he regularly attacks the rest of the party, while they mostly ignored it).

“It is imperative that a proven marriage champion emerge from Iowa and go on to capture the Republican nomination”, said Brown.