Cruz, Trump up in Iowa, but talk of ‘takedown’ effort fades

“The point is, you’re not”.

Trump also attacked Cruz over ethanol, a fuel for which he said Cruz is a late convert.

Overall, 57 percent of Republican caucus-goers in the state insist they feel “betrayed” by party representatives with 66 percent of voters identifying as Cruz supporters expressing such feelings. The Senate went so far as to pass a nonbinding resolution “recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen”.

Democratic Florida Rep. Alan Grayson has said he will file a lawsuit challenging Cruz’s right to be president if he becomes the nominee.

“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem”, Trump told the Post. “What are you gonna do?”

Cruz’s campaign also provided Breitbart News with his mother’s birth certificate, proving she was born with US citizenship in Delaware. The definition of “natural born citizen” has divided many legal scholars, due to the law never being elaborated on in the Constitution.

In the first surveys of 2016, Christie received 5 percent in New Hampshire, 4 percent in Iowa and 2 percent nationally, all behind his percentages in polls released at the end of previous year. It’s a conclusion to a six-day, 28-event bus tour that drew overflow crowds. “I like Donald Trump, I respect Donald Trump, he’s welcome to toss whatever attacks he wants”.

Iowans who attend Trump’s rallies, which can attract several thousand people, must register by email, enabling the campaign to try to prod them later to a caucus.

But recently, Cruz has had to aggressively push back on Trump’s questions about his eligibility for the presidency. Trump urged Cruz to seek a court order declaring that his birth to an American mother in Canada qualified him as a “natural born” citizen entitled to run for president.

Joining the ethanol lobby, Mr Trump has criticised Mr Cruz for opposing the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, which sets the minimum amount of corn-based ethanol and other biofuel that must be included in the nation’s gasoline supply.

Cruz’s appeals to evangelicals, tea party followers and other conservatives have made the Texas senator the current favorite in Iowa, though the NY billionaire remains a solid front-runner in the rest of the country.

“If I hadn’t brought up illegal immigration we wouldn’t be talking about it today”, he said. You can’t do that with you know, three weeks to go, you’re not allowed to do that. Fox Business Network, the debate sponsor, said candidates would qualify if they are in the top five in New Hampshire. Because he’s with the oil industry. “The geometry is conflicting: If you limit one, you aid the other. Those are the facts, and facts matter”.

Trump has led in the vast majority of Republican-primary polls since last summer, but Sen.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Grafton County Republican Committee’s Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner at the Indianhead Resort in Lincoln, N.H., on Sunday, March 15, 2015. So that was new to me.

Meanwhile, Cruz has said he has no interest in getting into a war of words with Trump. “Not very happy with that, to be honest”. “I drove all the way over here and didn’t hear a word about the farm economy”. “I give to everybody”, he said, “and when I call, they kiss my ass”. Trump said the idea that terrorists’ families are not aware of the terrorist activities is “b–“. “I don’t care about the Wall Street guys”, he said. “He should affirmatively do it before the nomination; otherwise, it’s gong to be a cloud hanging over his head, and that will hurt him”.