Donald Trump: “A little establishment” doesn’t hurt

And who knows? In a very close election, just a few voters could make all the difference: Trump and Cruz are in a dead heat in Iowa, according to HuffPollster’s current estimate.

“He also slammed the Texas senator’s speaking style and claimed he defeated him at the more recent Republican debate”.

Exactly, and the Evangelical vote is not huge in New Hampshire, but if you can cut into that support, that helps Trump and hurts Cruz. “And we’re seeing conservatives coming together and unifying behind our campaign”.

It’s even possible, as political scientist Brendan Nyhan suggests, that Palin could push undecided party actors farther away from Trump.

“He looks like a nervous wreck”, he added.

During the speech, the business mogul also repeatedly turned his sights on Jeb Bush, who has announced a new ad attacking Trump as unable to beat Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Following the report from Llamas, co-host George Stephanopoulos wondered: “You’ve got the establishment seeming to choose Trump over Cruz right now. They’re decent men… but when you don’t stand and draw a clear distinction, when you don’t stand for principle, Democrats celebrate”. “We’ve got to get things done folks, OK?” John McCain, who has frequently clashed with Cruz on Capitol Hill, said questions regarding Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency given his Canadian birth – an issue Trump has raised on the trail – were legitimate.

Bob Dole, 92, who lost as GOP vice presidential nominee in 1976 and presidential nominee in 1996, says anti-establishment candidate Ted Cruz will lose.

And Cruz has spent much of his adult life in considerably elite quarters, with stints at Princeton and Harvard and a Supreme Court clerkship followed by time as a White House aide before becoming a USA senator. Cruz clearly scares the GOP establishment more than Trump does.

Voters like James Hanning, who at times leapt from his seat with enthusiasm at a rally in Tulsa Wednesday, say making the Republican establishment uncomfortable is what’s needed right now. “And there’s a long-standing conservative slash libertarian tradition of that, and I’m more than willing to hold that up against what Trump wants because I think what trump wants is bad for America”. Whether it’s death by being shot or poisoning, does it really matter?