Cruz struggles with ethanol subsidy opposition in Iowa

Donald Trump escalated his attack against Ted Cruz on Wednesday while the Texas senator sought to move past the hits and maintain his status as the favorite to win the Iowa caucuses.

Trump told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that Cruz’s Canadian birthplace and his holding a double passport was a “very precarious” issue that “a lot of people are talking about”. But Cruz’s response is interesting in the debate, he says ‘oh I was for that but also the bill that allow for the collection of more cell phone data.’ So my question to Ted Cruz is, are you for collecting data or against it?

GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz took aim at the “mainstream media” Tuesday by charging in a new television ad that it would see the issue of illegal immigration through a different prism if a herd of lawyers, bankers and journalists were charging across the U.S.-Mexico border. He noted it would be “quite ironic” that after the “drama” over Obama’s birth certificate, “Republican primary voters were to choose Senator Cruz as their nominee, somebody who actually wasn’t born in the United States and only 18 months ago renounced his Canadian citizenship”.

It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make decision.

Trump was one of the loudest voices questioning whether President Obama was born in Kenya and thus not eligible to be US president.

He wouldn’t want Hillary Clinton to be able to discredit or the Democrats to disqualify him with it. He encourages Cruz to go to court and get a ruling from the federal courts: “You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head”.

Trump first unleashed a verbal assault on Cruz in December at an event in Des Moines where he questioned Cruz’s evangelical faith. John McCain, Mitt Romney’s father George Romney and former Arizona Sen.

He said that he golfs with Trump from time to time and that when asked who’s a better golfer, Jackson responded, “Oh, I am for sure”. It was speculation that Obama was born outside the country, even though his mother was American, that fueled the so-called birther movement. I’d love to get Cruz’s opinion on the efficacy of a congressional resolution to resolve the issue.

Colvin reported from Claremont, New Hampshire.