TED CRUZ: Donald Trump’s raging tweetstorms aren’t presidential

Today, Donald Trump tells George Stephanopoulos that Ted Cruz is “a nasty guy” and “nobody likes him”.

“I think most people know exactly what “New York values” are, and frankly, they are not the rest of the country’s values. So I’ve got a very simple question for the folks here: How do we not get burned again?” “People will continue to make political noise about it, but as a legal matter it is quite straightforward”.

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz is not backing down from his derisive comments about “New York values”.

Ted Cruz, a conservative senator from Texas and one of the Republican frontrunners said, “I am thrilled and we are all giving prayers of thanksgiving”.

Cruz reportedly gave an encore of his “apology” Friday at a campaign rally in Tigerville, South Carolina. In it, Trump expresses support for bisexual, gay, and lesbian troops openly serving and offers no opinion on marriage equality.

“I would point out it’s a view echoed by far left liberal Democratic politicians like Andrew Cuomo, like Bill de Blasio, like Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump has supported those candidates and supported their positions on a lot of issues”, Cruz said Sunday.

Cruz had taken his shot against Tump’s “New York values” during last week’s debate and missed, incurring successful return fire in the form of a reference by Trump to New Yorkers’ heroism on September 11, 2001.

Cruz said conservatives represented the last chance to revive America.

Those states will have the nation’s first nominating contests of 2016.

The Texas senator has attempted to draft off of the anger that Trump has stoked among Republican primary voters, repeatedly saying that Trump’s bid was beneficial for Cruz’s own candidacy as an insurgent outsider. Trump, for his part, has called Latino immigrants “rapists” and called for “a complete shutdown” on all Muslim transportation to the United States, both of which are objectively nasty things to do, particularly as a politician.

The war of words between Cruz and Trump has intensified in recent days, with Trump going on the offensive over Cruz’s eligibility to be on the ballot given his Canadian birth and for Cruz’s failure to disclose loans received from Citibank and Goldman Sachs for his 2012 Senate race. Trump told reporters that Cruz was “a friend of mine” and “a good guy”.

Meanwhile, Cruz tried to contrast Trump with himself as a consistent conservative.

Republican White House hopeful Marco Rubio says that anger alone isn’t enough to qualify someone to be president. In a Marist poll, Trump is ahead of the pack in New Hampshire at 30%.