Cruz says he welcomes ‘establishment’ backing Trump

Ted Cruz is condemning the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, but is refusing to blame the attack on the anti-abortion rhetoric that has consumed stretches of the Republican primary campaign.

Candidates face crunch time February 1 when residents of the heartland state cast the first votes in the 2016 race, and it is looking increasingly like a two-person, bare-knuckles affair. It’s beyond irony that rumblings from the establishment belly indicate that the GOP’s more moderate, business-focused elements are coming to terms with a Trump nomination – or anything to thwart Cruz.

“The establishment is beginning to support Donald Trump”, Cruz told the media outlet, adding, “it is not a surprise that the establishment is in full panic mode”.

It’s a silly argument that was settled long ago.

The question of whether Cruz is a natural-born citizen is the subject of a lawsuit filed last week in a U.S. District Court in Texas. According to a report by CBS News, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol recently penned an essay urging her mother to endorse Donald Trump. “I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word “Republican” – not very often”.

Weekly Standard columnist Stephen Hayes opined to the hosts of Outnumbered that Cruz was getting the better of the battle between him and Trump because the billionaire was not a true conservative.

Donald Trump holds a 20-point lead in the New Hampshire Republican primary, a new CNN/WMUR poll shows. Carson, by contrast, fell from 14 percent to 8 percent, and Rubio dropped from 14 percent to 11 percent. Cruz led state polls for more than a month, now he and Trump are neck and neck, less than two weeks before Iowans hit the voting booths. Trump, by the way, is pulling votes from establishment Republicans. Cruz said Washington insiders were moving to Trump because he has promised them he will cut deals, while Cruz has been less accommodating.

On the economy and national security, the candidates offered a sharp contrast to the optimistic portrait of the nation President Barack Obama outlined in his State of the Union address earlier this week, warning that sticking with Democrats in the November election could have dire consequences.

“Goldman Sachs owns him”, Trump said touring Iowa, referring to one of the undisclosed loans.