Growing feud: Trump, Cruz escalate attacks on each other

After clashing in Thursday’s sixth Republican debate, Donald Trump kept up the heat on his rival Ted Cruz on Saturday with a string of angry Twitter accusations about his nationality and financial affairs.

The Republican presidential nomination is growing increasingly more fractured as the primary race becomes more urgent.

Donald Trump was the clear victor of Thursday’s Fox Business debate in Charleston, S.C., according to an Independent Journal Review poll conducted by Google Consumer Surveys.

Trump seized on a report in The New York Times that said Cruz had failed to disclose a second loan, from Citibank, that helped bankroll his 2012 Senate campaign.

Cruz declined to comment on the Times report when asked by a CNN reporter during an appearance in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday.

Rubio called out Trump and Texas Sen.

“Say whatever you want”, Trump said in response to the boos.

“We have to caucus, before we forget, we have to caucus, we have to get out”, Trump told the crowd. And then he acts like Robin Hood.

“I would note that Donald’s record does not match what he says as a candidate”, Cruz said, gamely tackling questions he routinely swatted away for seven months. And now he is tying the bank loan storyline to Cruz’s recent critique that Trump represents “New York values”, an all-encompassing insult understood by residents in more rural, conservative states like Iowa and SC. He said Trump had attacked him because Cruz was a threat to him in Iowa.

‘I invite you to come to the National 9-11 Memorial and Museum and see for yourself, and perhaps learn something about, the values of New Yorkers and the Heroes who defended American values on September 11th, 2001’. “I think in terms of a commander in chief, we ought to have someone who isn’t springing out of bed to tweet in a frantic response to the latest polls”.

Donald Trump continued trashing Ted Cruz on ABC’s This Week this morning, calling him a “very nasty” and dishonest person. And again it may be a little bit of a New York background because there is some different having attitude in different parts of the country and you know I was raised in New York, grew up and work and everything else in New York City.