Cruz bashes media for bringing up Palin’s son

Sarah Palin’s recent endorsement of Donald Trump will help him continue to dominate the news cycle, but it’s not clear it will move him any closer to winning the Republican nomination.

He views Mr Cruz as an “extremist” who is too far to the right of the party. Some establishment candidates, she said, wear “political correctness kind of like a suicide vest”.

“Because while Trump, admittedly, has given me so much material to make jokes about, nobody compares to the original material girl”, Colbert said of Palin.

The only aspect Noah said he enjoyed more than Palin talking was Trump standing beside her, listening to the speech.

Dole has endorsed former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and previously said he might “oversleep” on Election Day if Cruz ends up the nominee.

As the conversation wrapped up, one of the diners was curious to know what Rubio thought of Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Trump earlier this week.

Newt Gingrich called Dole “the tax collector for the welfare state” because, in 1982, it was Senate Finance Committee Chairman Dole who pressured President Reagan into raising excise taxes.

As New York’s Jonathan Chait explains, establishment Republicans are just accepting that their party is in the clutches of a madman, and they view Cruz as “just as bad as Trump, or possibly even worse”.

It is part of a fascinating and once unthinkable calculation by leading establishment figures that Donald Trump is the lesser of two evils at the top of the Republican presidential pack – and defeating Cruz in Iowa is now part of this strategy. Speaking on Boston Herald Radio’s Morning Meeting on Thursday, Cruz vowed not to reciprocate Trump’s latest behavior, which he compared to that of a schoolyard child. “Remember President McCain? Remember President Romney?” “Look, Donald Trump was very candid”. The anchor said he and others observed Trump appeared to be restless. “Well the American people understood that’s not what we needed”. “I’ll tell ya, there are a whole lot of people in this country that feel exactly the same way”.

Four years later, many Republican voters not only believe that nominating a centrist would cost them another shot at the White House, but they also are deeply skeptical that an establishment GOP president would follow through on their priorities.