Gov. Nikki Haley endorses Sen. Marco Rubio ahead of SC GOP prima

So Donald, I would encourage you – if you want to file a lawsuit challenging this ad, claiming it is defamation, file the lawsuit.

Ted Cruz has already had one of his ads pulled off the air concerning Senator Rubio because it was totally false.

Trump has since evolved on the issue and now says he opposes abortion rights.

Cruz then challenged Trump: Put up or shut up. Neurosurgeon Ben Carson trails in sixth with 6 percent of the vote.

To punctuate the threat, Trump’s attorney sent a cease and desist letter to Cruz’s campaign, which Cruz, who’s Trump’s nearest competitor in the polls, defiantly read aloud to reporters at a press conference in South Carolina Wednesday afternoon.

The endorsement could provide Marco Rubio with much-needed momentum after a fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary.

“It’s hard for me to be lectured to by a gifted young guy who thinks going to committee hearings means you know something about the world”, Bush said in Summerville.

“She embodies and exemplifies what I want the Republican Party to be known as in the 21st century: vibrant, reform-oriented, optimistic, upwardly mobile”.

“I don’t think anyone is surprised that Donald is threatening to sue people”, Cruz told moderator Anderson Cooper.

“And for someone who has no experience at all to suggest I don’t, having lived overseas, having worked overseas, developing relationships with leaders overseas, being governor of the fourth-largest state and being a commander-in-chief of the Florida National Guard, with all due respect, Senator Rubio, your four years or five years, or whatever it is as senator, does not match up to my capabilities of understanding how the world works”, he said. Ted Cruz of Texas over a negative TV ad, while Sen.

“I’m doing what a lot of people in SC are doing, which is I watch the debate, been trying to go through all the different situations, I’m looking at all the different candidates and trying to figure out who that person would be, so I’m not at a point yet”, Haley said on Tuesday.

If the current poll is re-weighted to reflect the ideological composition from last month, the GOP horserace numbers are: Trump 26 percent, Cruz 25 percent, Rubio 18 percent and Kasich 13 percent – so Trump is ahead by one point, but still down from January.

“It is quite literally the most ridiculous theory I’ve ever heard”, Cruz said. “I just called to say I love you”, he said, relating phone calls to his wife.