Ted Cruz: Donald Trump ‘Rattled’ and ‘Very, Very Dismayed’

Republican U.S. presidential candidates businessman Donald Trump (L) and Senator Ted Cruz speak simultaneously at the Fox Business Network Republican presidential candidates debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, on January 14, 2016. “Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him”, Trump said in an interview on ABC’s This Week that aired on Sunday. Rubio surely hopes a distant third in Iowa, which is likely if Ben Carson continues to sag, will do something like that for him in New Hampshire, where he is competing with three other candidates – Christie, Jeb Bush, John Kasich – for the state’s many moderate and/or secular voters. He’s a very — he’s got an edge that’s not good.

Ted Cruz swatted away the idea that Donald Trump’s conversion to Republicanism was genuine, saying that Trump’s late-life change to conservatism was in no way similar to that of another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan. Trump keeps attacking Cruz on his “New York values” comment.

“Often conservatives are just all over the place and they dissipate their strength by spreading it out across too many candidates”, said New Hampshire state Rep. Bill O’Brien, a state co-chair for Cruz.

‘I’ll tell you the rest of the country, people know exactly what that is, ‘ Cruz continued.

“My views are a little bit different than if I lived in Iowa”, Mr Trump said at the time.

Ted Cruz is back in the headlines just a few days after he was slammed by his presidential opponent Donald Trump for “disrespecting” New Yorkers with his remarks on their values during an interview last week. For good measure, Trump also said Cruz had the “wrong temperament” to be President.

“Normally by now a bunch of people would have dropped out”, said Milt Janosky, a 74-year-old retiree at a Bush town hall in his hometown of Hollis, New Hampshire.

Trump, despite his attacks, is a less popular search topic than Cruz in these key states. Trump loves Cruz. Trump loves Cruz not.

Attend any Trump rally – the one in Claremont attracted a thousand people on a ten-degree night, and it doesn’t take long to find Republicans like Alex Carpenter, voters who say they’re through toeing the party line. But with his poll numbers rising in New Hampshire, Cruz is banking on the bus tour to give him a boost. ‘And it’s amusing seeing the media lead in NY and D.C. run around with their hair on fire wondering what on earth are NY values’. He wore a Second Amendment button to the event and said protecting gun rights was his priority issue, along with securing the nation’s borders. And when Cruz did he somehow acted as if the values of this city are somehow contrary to the values on which he has based his campaign, whatever those are.