Ted Cruz: Trump is not the conservative he claims
Ted Cruz said Donald Trump has been part of the corruption in Washington and would be “yet another Republican to cozy up to Chuck Schumer” as president.
It’s a risky strategy.
“We were on the verge of losing this fight and 12 million people here illegally being granted amnesty”, Cruz said, according to Buzzfeed News. “Especially when you will have two candidates who have been very strong”.
Presidential bid Donald Trump threw a nasty blow at election competition and freshman senator of the state of Texas Ted Cruz.
As of the recent poll survey, Cruz and Trump are in a tight competition within Iowa, but Trump is taking the lead in New Hampshire with Cruz closely catching up. Each is competing for the same pool of center-right voters.
“I think it’s very exciting, I think people in New Hampshire have a great role in this”, said Goffstown resident Steve Brzozowski.
The governor highlighted Cruz’s opposition to aid for response to the devastating hurricane, but his calls for federal assistance after Texas flooding in 2015.
Donohue called some of the rhetoric emerging from the Republican primary race was “damn serious and sometimes a little scary”.
In a shift, most of the field during the debate left Trump alone, and at times praised him, perhaps recognizing that he seems to have better tapped into the restless mood among Republican voters.
Wouldn’t you expect NY liberals to be proud of their success – proud that their fellow Gothamites have joined the liberal movement and eschewed conservative values?
“I don’t know, maybe they won’t”, he added. Days later, as the nation’s first nominating contests draw nearer, the debate over the metropolitan area and its “values” continues to snowball, with Cruz doubling down on the line of attack. Since 1976, every major party presidential nominee has won either Iowa or New Hampshire, with the exception of Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992.
‘I’m from Manhattan, those are the views of New York, those are what New York values are, they are not Iowa values, but they’re New York values, ‘ Cruz continued. “You can not make this deal”… “They take very seriously their vote”.
Cruz has campaigned in the Granite State fewer times than Trump.
Ted Cruz speaks to guests at the 2016 South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, Jan. 16, 2016.
On last night’s episode of SNL, Cruz, played by Taran Killam, mocked the candidate’s thinly-veiled dig at NY stereotypes, describing “New York values” as scenes from the 1990’s sitcom “Seinfeld”. “Trump is free to criticize Cruz all he wants as far as I’m concerned, but going after him as a “nasty” guy and on this birther business, he’s gotta worry that it’s gonna create more negatives within his own support base rather than turn people off to Cruz”, Limbaugh said. “Unlike a number of candidates in the field, we don’t view any of these one states as a must-win for us”.