Ted Cruz Picks Up Major Endorsement

Cruz has so far escaped Trump’s ire by playing nice with the famously combative billionaire, but last night Cruz was secretly recorded questioning Trump’s judgement at a closed-door fundraiser.

An attendee provided the audio to The New York Times.

Vander Plaats said it would be up to each GOP candidate to decide their plans going forward, noting that he talked with Huckabee, Santorum and NY entrepreneur Donald Trump in the past two days and planned to contact Cruz to discuss putting “meat on the skeleton” of his Iowa bid with their backing.

On Friday, Trump took the offensive, tweeting anticipation that Cruz will launch an attack: “I hope so, he will fall like all others”, Trump tweeted. In a question-and-answer session later, Cruz declined comment on aNew York Times story saying he questions whether Trump has the “judgment” to be president. Iowa insiders allege in that trio of endorsements provides Cruz a strong surge amongst social conservatives & evangelicals, a key group in that Cruz is working to appeal to both in Iowa & nationally.

The Cruz campaign also has a mobile app to connect supporters with one another. Just over 120,000 Republicans participated in the 2012 caucuses, but there are over 600,000 GOP voters registered in the state.

Vander Plaats said he will ask the next president to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling that made marriage equality the law of the land. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign as the Texas Republican’s campaign continues to gain momentum.

A CBS/NYT national poll released today shows Cruz in second place behind Trump.

Trump said he likes Cruz but wondered how he wins Iowa with positions that are “anti-Iowa” on ethanol, noting, “he’s got to be with oil” as a Texas senator.

He said that while past caucus winners Huckabee and Santorum are “dear friends who we love deeply”, the race calls for new leadership.

Trump’s personal attack mirrors a previous joust at one-time top Iowa rival Ben Carson, who is a Seventh Day Adventist.

The Ted Cruz boomlet is thriving. “Not a lot come out”. A member of the Republican Party of Iowa State Central Committee who had pledged to stay neutral, Loras Schulte, was so moved by Cruz that he resigned from his seat and endorsed for the first time in 16 years. I am leading by so much he must.

Couple that with the typical liberal bias in the “mainstream” media, and their article about David Brock going after Ted Cruz comes clearly into focus. Trump reciprocated on Friday evening. “Will be easy!” Trump tweeted on Friday morning. He noted at one point that “it’s big but it feels intimate”.

“I don’t know what percentage of his support is core-and-consistent Trump”, Goidel said, “but he is tapping into a significant part of that electorate that seems like it is not likely to just go to another candidate or go to another candidate easily”. “I wanted to hear all the context”. “I’m learning”, Quirk said.

“I’m mostly supporting him”, Norby said. He was removed by security officers while supporters shouted, “Trump”, and, “USA”.

“I like the things that Trump has to say”.

Sure, Cruz raising money to run ads against the gutless wonders who ran as conservatives and then betrayed the American people as liberals…that one’s really going to get people fired up…in support of Cruz.