Donald Trump may sue Ted Cruz over presidential eligibility: ‘When I file
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen.
Iowa and New Hampshire are the first two states in the upcoming primary. And I keep marveling at how Donald Trump can dominate a television screen. It came from Donald Trump.
In that “Meet the Press” broadcast, the billionaire was questioned over his support of abortion and gay individuals serving in the military.
Cruz has responded by questioning Trump’s “New York values” – a coded suggestion that Trump is too liberal to be a Republican.
“Normally, I at least know the county chairs and I see some organization”, said Gwen Ecklund, chair of the Republican Party in Crawford County, who said Trump staffers weren’t doing as much as other campaigns. “And we said that immediately”, Cruz said.
Cruz also restated his backhand apology for criticizing Donald Trump’s “New York values”. They were very confused: ‘Well, what are these NY values of which you speak?’ ” Cruz said.
“If someone tells you they’re tea party, you can’t be tea party and at the same time have supported TARP”, Cruz said, using an acronym for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a controversial Wall Street bailout program. ‘In South Carolina, when I was there, the people certainly understood it’.
Businessman Donald Trump has a 14-point lead over No. 2 Sen.
“I’m a Protestant, I’m very proud of it, Presbyterian to be exact, but I’m proud of it, very, very proud”.
I would note that Ronald Reagan spent decades as a principled conservative, spent decades traveling the country sharing his conservative, free-market views [and] defending the Constitution.
“Nobody likes him, no one in Congress likes him, nobody anywhere likes him once they get to know him”.
“That has got to drive him nuts, and I imagine it sent him out of bed this morning tweeting and tweeting and tweeting”, Cruz said. Trump went after Cruz on Twitter for fundraising in New York City as well as accepting money from a gay couple among other issues.
The Trump campaign billed this unscheduled stop as a caucus captain/volunteer meeting, and the fans in attendance said they received a private invitation to come after Trump’s first event of the day in Urbandale, Iowa. In a letter to the FEC Thursday, Cruz said the loans were “inadvertently omitted” from required filings. Ted Cruz on Saturday, prominent conservative writer and radio host Mark Levin publicly scolded the GOP front-runner, a notable rebuke from a wing of the Republican Party that Trump needs in order to capture the Iowa caucuses. The New York Daily News has had for two days mocked Cruz on the front-page, with today’s “Slime Doesn’t Pay, Ted” for Cruz fund-raising from New Yorkers while insulting them, following Friday’s vintage “Drop Dead, Ted” which featured the Statue of Liberty making an obscene gesture and included a sub-headline “Go back to Canada”. The phrase “New York values” has gotten buzz over the last week in a way “flip-flopper” never would have. “I’d do the public a favor”, Trump said, smiling. He put a 25 million dollar check up from his own pocket to fund that campaign and my wife Heidi and I, we ended up investing everything we owned.
“He turned out to be an absolute disaster because he gave us Obamacare”, the presidential candidate said.