Donald Trump On Ted Cruz: ‘He’s A Nasty Guy. Nobody Likes Him.’

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz spar at last week’s Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C. Trump, the real estate mogul, and Cruz, the Texas senator, are on a collision course.

Perhaps Cruz didn’t know or didn’t care his rival in the “outsider lane” was holding back, because the Texas senator continued to assail Trump for his past views in a WRKO interview with conservative radio host Jeff Kuhner, per BuzzFeed’s KFILE. “It’s not a good thing for the country”, said Mr. Trump, who has led Republican opinion polls for months.

“Everybody in the world watched and everyone in the world loved NY and loved New Yorkers”, Trump said. Cruz has responded by questioning Trump’s “New York values” — a coded suggestion that Trump is too liberal to be a Republican.

Russert later asked if Trump would ban partial birth abortion if he were president.

He pointed to a 1999 interview where Trump, explaining his political views, said, “I lived in New York City, in Manhattan all my life, OK? I’d do the public a favor”, Trump said, smiling. Those are what NY values are, they’re not Iowa values, but that’s ‘New York values.’ So, that was Donald’s explanation of what NY values are.

Christie said Cruz was reading off Trump’s playbook as he doubled-down on the attack line.

He apparently did not think people – particularly large corporations who employee many of his citizens – would take his words literally.

MIKA: I say that like [makes air quotes].

In the new ad, Trump runs through his central campaign platforms, including his vows to strengthen the country’s borders, “fix” it’s health care system and the military, and take better care of veterans.

During an interview with George Stephanopoulos on last Sunday’s episode of This Week, Donald Trump said that he doesn’t think Cruz has a “great chance” of winning and added that he is a “nasty guy”, no one likes him, and that it is hard to make deals with a guy like him. He was so nice to me.

“I don’t know how they can convince themselves that they’ll be able to go into SC and get something going, having come in a distant third, fourth, fifth place in Iowa and New Hampshire”, said Mike Dennehy, a New Hampshire Republican operative.

“That formulation didn’t come from me”.

Trump also went after Cruz for supporting now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005. “Nobody in Congress likes him”.

“Just so you know, he’s taking money from people who are very much into the whole gay marriage situation and he’s taking money from them and, you know, raising funds from them”.

Trump is now working hard to paint Cruz as a flip flopper who will say anything to get elected, as he tries to maintain his front-runner status.

“He turned out to be an absolute disaster because he gave us Obamacare”, the presidential candidate said.