Donald Trump: I could “shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”

Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.

About 1,500 people reportedly attended Trump’s rally at Dordt College in Iowa, which will conduct its caucuses in a little more than a week.

The Donald also needled Cruz for drawing the support of ultra-conservative commentator Glenn Beck, who is planning to stump for the Texan in Iowa.

Beck is among almost two dozen conservative thinkers who penned anti-Trump essays for National Review magazine – a hit Trump to referred to repeatedly at the rally. Ted Cruz of Texas scooted across Iowa on Saturday, their campaigns lobbing verbal firecrackers at each other nine days before the party’s caucuses. Just 2% said they weren’t familiar enough with Trump to make a judgement and the rest – 9% – were undecided. “That is why I am endorsing Senator Ted Cruz as the next president of the United States of America”.

WHAT’S NEXT: Trump immediately departed for an afternoon event in Pella. He was introduced by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.

Cruz has insisted that he meets that bar because he was born to an American mother, making him an American citizen by birth.

“I don’t like the Republican establishment”, said Dean Behrendsen, a 67-year-old farmer from Gilmore City, Iowa, who saw Cruz speak at a pizza restaurant near there earlier this month. And Mayor Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.

A Monmouth University poll released Wednesday gave Trump 36 percent and Cruz 13 percent.

On the Democratic side, the Register picked Hillary Clinton, the Register picked Hillary in Y 2008 over the freshman Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama.

During his speech, Trump called Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly biased and said she should not be a moderator at a Fox-hosted Republican debate in Des Moines on Thursday.

Trump has repeatedly suggested that Cruz may not be eligible to serve as president because he was born in Canada, raising the question of whether Cruz meets the Constitutional requirement that the president be a natural-born citizen.