Krauthammer: Establishment Choosing Trump Over Cruz

“If it came down to Trump or Cruz, there is no question I’d vote for Trump”, said former NY mayor and 2008 presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has not endorsed a candidate.

Correction: This post originally stated that the Fox News poll showed Rubio receiving 18 percent support.

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Trump is jumping on Cruz, and he released a hard-hitting TV ad Friday attacking the Texan on immigration and his 2013 amendment to a comprehensive immigration bill that would have allowed millions of immigrants already in the US illegally to stay, though not to become citizens.

Among the hundreds of Ted Cruz volunteers that have cycled through a dorm-like outpost here, a select group proudly calls itself the “2 Percenters”. “I can say I have no intention of shooting anybody in this campaign”.

Rubio recently stepped up his Iowa campaign appearances in hopes of breaking through the poll leaders in the state, Cruz and Trump, and putting himself in a stronger position for New Hampshire’s February 9 primary.

“Look, I understand that Marco Rubio and Donald Trump are trying very, very hard to blur the lines here”.

“Well, I think the short answer is because everybody who knows him in the Senate hates him and I think hate is not an exaggeration”, Krauthammer explained.

“Guys like Ted Cruz will never make a deal because he’s a strident guy”, Trump said, pushing back against the idea that collaboration is a dirty word.

“I have the most loyal people, did you ever see that?” Ted Cruz for president, Cruz’s campaign announced Saturday. He warned that a Trump victory in the February 1 caucuses could have lasting consequences: “If Donald Trump wins, it’s going to be a snowball to hell”.

In the “Hooray for Our Tribe” Department, the Republican Party that usually decries “identity politics” by the left struggles in the grip of its own tribal divisions.

Burr, a Republican senator from North Carolina is probably feeling quite a bit of heat from his party.

Trump declined to clarify the comments when asked about them after the event, according to CNN. Graham told reporters at the Capitol that choosing between Trump or Cruz is like a choice between being shot or poisoned.

“And I wouldn’t even complain because he was born in Canada”, Trump said.

“Beck compared Cruz to the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and gave him a compass that belonged to the first one, George Washington”.