Paul on Cruz: ‘He wants to have it both ways’

Another poll by Monmouth University showed Cruz in first place with 24 percent among all Republican candidates.

“Is his campaign a little more superficial than that of other people in his bracket in New Hampshire?”

The latest poll shows Ted Cruz opening his lead over Donald Trump in Iowa to nine points – nine points. The fiery freshman senator from Texas is walking a tightrope between conventional conservatism and Trumpian reactionaryism, touting himself as the only true conservative in the GOP field.

In announcing the new video, which attacks Sen. If Trump hadn’t run, though, Cruz could have still supported modest legalization (without citizenship) and been comfortably to the right of Rubio. In 2012 and 2008 they were actually on January 3. Since then, the Journal has frequently criticized his extreme tactics, such as threatening government shutdowns, on its op-ed page.

It just doesnt make sense, ” said David Lane, a conservative strategist who has been organizing pastors to become more involved in politics. When pollsters have asked whether undocumented immigrants should be able to apply for citizenship if they pay fines and learn English, clear majorities of Republicans say yes: 72 percent in a January 2014 CNN poll; 69 percent in an October 2013 CBS poll; 63 percent in a February 2013 Fox poll (those and others are collected here). Prominent conservatives, Cruz among them, are frequently brought on board to write op-eds of their own. The political terrain there is simply too hostile to Cruz.

To be sure, the Cruz campaign has had ample good news to take comfort in since the Las Vegas debate. In which case a candidate who emerges as Trump’s chief rival, or one of two candidates who rise to the top, will be nominated, much as candidates have been in the past. Another voter asked Bush how he’d go about defeating Trump. And he’s casting his decision to go after Trump, in part, as a move to save the Republican party. “And political correctness is killing people”.

“That’s one of those questions that I think you have to answer in a thoughtful way if you’re running for president of the United States”, Bush said.

As Politifact put it, “for now, it seems that Clinton has turned speculative left-of-center rhetoric into fact”. According to a recent story from Yahoo!

The media have seized on the disagreement and pressed Cruz on the issue in numerous interviews over the past week, but Senator Sessions, whose credibility on the immigration issue is unquestioned among the conservative base, has repeatedly come to Cruz’s defense.

Not for a second will he stay an extremist in the general election, because he wouldn’t win. “Cruz has done event after event after event.”Steve Deace, an influential Iowa radio host who endorsed Cruz, said of Rubio: “He did all the big cattle calls, but he didnt put in the work on the ground either prior or post those events.

Those who think Ted Cruz is obliged to be more openly anti-Trump should consider that so far it is the shrewd Texan who has made the most progress in stopping him. If Trump’s current national popularity is any indication, that could prove to be a winning position for many voters.