Donald Trump torches Ted Cruz in new TV ad

The poll also found that Cruz and Trump are the most popular second choice for likely Republican primary voters. “Basically you make them fly back to their country for a minute, touch the ground, and then they come back with amnesty as citizens”.

One attendee, Lauri White said with a wry smile, “honestly, some people were excited to see Madonna, and I wanted to see Trump, so here I am”. Asked which candidate best represented their values, just 2 percent chose Christie, while 29 percent picked Cruz and 28 percent selected Trump.

Cruz’s team also released its own attack ad Friday targeting Trump’s support for eminent domain laws, which allow the government to seize private property.

“I have concluded without any hesitation, without any doubt that Jeb Bush is ready on day one to be a commander in chief worthy of the sacrifices of the one percent fighting this war”, Graham said. “He was criticizing Mitt Romney for being too tough on immigration”.

Donald Trump and some mainstream Republicans are engaged in a long-distance flirtation.

There are still big swaths of establishment-minded Republican voters and officials who staunchly oppose Trump’s candidacy and believe both he and Cruz are unelectable in November. “Now, when he launched his campaign for president, suddenly he discovered illegal immigration was a problem”. “What my amendment did is take citizenship off the table but it doesn’t mean – what it doesn’t mean that I supported other aspects of the bill”. The spot then returns to 2015, where Cruz assures Baier that he doesn’t really support legal status for the undocumented.

Mr Dole (92), an establishment grandee, told the New York Times on Wednesday that the party would suffer “cataclysmic” and “wholesale” losses in congressional and state elections if Cruz becomes the Republican nominee.

Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota Governor and a Y 2012 presidential candidate, said that “the light bulb has gone on for a lot of people, and it wasn’t on a couple of months ago”, that Donald Trump could win the nomination.

On the campaign trail, Cruz often said he is running for president to stop what he calls a “Washington Cartel”. I encourage Cruz and Trump to join forces and drag the rest of the candidates into their camp by offering them cabinet positions – right now.

Cruz adviser Jason Miller said in a statement: “Just as we stood up to Donald Trump’s misleading attacks in the last debate, we’ll stand up to his attack ads now”.