Cruz deflects allegations of criticism of Trump

The normally confident Donald Trump is anticipating unwelcome headlines from a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll set for release Saturday evening. “I don’t believe either one of them is going to be our president”.

“There is this huge anti-Washington thing going on in the Republican Party”, O’Sullivan said.

The father of the Texas senator, who has appealed to the born-again believers in the Hawkeye State, escaped from Cuba as a young adult. Trump, jiu-jitsu master, is likely to flip that around and charge that Cruz is the candidate who is fatally flawed.

“Both of them I like and respect”, Cruz said in reference to Trump and Carson, as quoted by the Times. “I might oversleep that day”, he told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

Cruz’s hesitance to criticize Trump directly – even after Trump put forward a policy to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the country – stands in contrast with many of his fellow candidates, who have increasingly sharpened their criticism of the front-runner and expressed frustration with his success in the polls.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is picking up anti-gay, evangelical support in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Trump spoke for about ninety minutes on Friday night at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines. “Sen. Cruz has not only signed NOM’s presidential marriage pledge committing to take specific actions as president, but he has personally authored the pending federal marriage amendment to restore the right of states to define marriage as one man/one woman”.

Both Senators hold clear leads when matched against Carson.

Recent polls in New Hampshire and SC, both crucial states in the Republican nominating process, have shown Trump with commanding leads.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has asked the Cruz campaign to explain but has not yet received a response. The financial component gives Cruz’s campaign durability.

The group also remained neutral in 2011, but Vander Plaats personally endorsed Rick Santorum. Trump’s won’t be. The real estate magnate delights in personal digs, from calling Jeb Bush “low energy” to branding Ben Carson “pathological”.

For his part, Cruz appears to be trying to head off a fight.

Cruz has started to make electability a selling point of his campaign and has been working to be more likeable on the trail. Cruz’s campaign, along with others in the GOP field, are being careful not to alienate Trump supporters because if Trump begins to decline in the polls, all would want to capture his supporters who look elsewhere.

The task of courting Trump supporters while also distinguishing himself is hard.

During a private fundraiser in New York City on Wednesday, Cruz questioned Trump’s “judgment” to be president and deliberated on the mogul’s “strength”, two sources who attended the event told the New York Times.