Donald Trump Inevitably Blasts ‘Hyprocrite’ Ted Cruz in His Latest Ad

GOP presidential front-runners Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz aren’t pulling any punches anymore.

The big news came as the Iowa governor was speaking to a small group of reporters at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona, where several 2016 presidential candidates are slated to speak, Branstad labeled Cruz a “big oil” candidate whose victory would be “very damaging to our state”.

Sen. Ted Cruz expressed surprise that Donald Trump suddenly discovered illegal immigration was a problem when he began running for president. And Trump has often cited Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who said that although Cruz is generally accepted to be a natural-born citizen, no court has definitively ruled on the question.

Earlier in the day, Trump also released his first attack ad against Cruz, his top rival in the February 1 Iowa caucus.

In other words, the more Cruz accuses Trump of being too moderate, the more establishment moderates like Trump.

Syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh weighed in on the issue, using a segment of his broadcast on Thursday to explain why he believes Republican “establishment types” favor the brash billionaire over the junior senator from Texas. “I think that if they’re not here legally, then they shouldn’t be here at all”.

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are posing each other as the “outsider” candidate, and taking their brawl to the airwaves and social media. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is also in the mix in New Hampshire.

If Cruz and Trump step back and look at the banquet table before them, they would see this: Any unifying (repeat: unifying) Republican candidate should easily defeat Clinton or Sanders if he or she does not alienate the base, and if he or she does not alienate independent voters.

The National Review, a torchbearer for conservative Republicans, devoted a whole issue to attacking Trump, calling him “a philosophically unmoored political opportunist” who would trash ideological consensus inside the party.

“I think that’s the appeal of somebody like Ted Cruz”, Schleusener said.

In the last two cycles, Iowa Republicans have backed Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, who did not get within shouting distance of the nomination. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous, Cruz argued that Trump’s plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants is equal to “touchback”. Barring some sort of massive Iowa collapse, Trump seems well-positioned to cruise in the Granite State, so the real battle will be for second.

“When there are obstacles to his design that are insurmountable” – say, the NFL – “Mr. Trump will cut the rope and cut his losses and abandon the people who joined to support his cause …”