Ted Cruz Wants You to Know He Didn’t Criticize Donald Trump

However, with Cruz making a run at Trump in the polls, it looks as though The Donald may be getting ready to use an ill-considered comment the Texas senator made in a private meeting with supporters as an excuse to go on the attack.

TRUMP: He’s got to come a long way ’cause he’s right now for the oil, but I understand it. Oil pays him a lot of money.

“I think he’s the only one who can make things great again”, Solberg said. “That is what we need is a strong leader”. Both campaigns, Cruz reportedly said, have a “natural arch” and gravity is now “pulling them down”. I won’t say Cruz because he’s been nice to me. “They are more focused on immigration and bringing immigrants in and not really focusing on the American citizens that are here”.

With the Iowa Caucuses just 53 days away, endorsements for presidential candidates are starting to pour in. They have also described his policies as near-isolationist and said his opposition to surveillance programs undermines national security.

As for Vander Plaats” background, Right Wing Watch recently highlighted the man whose endorsement was in demand: “Not only does Vander Plaats want to remove from office or defund the courts of judges who find in favor of marriage equality, he believes that anything, like gay marriage, that “goes against the law of nature” is by definition unconstitutional”.

Goidel says television news programs have boosted their ratings by giving Trump free rein, much to the chagrin of other candidates. GOP lawmakers in particular are irked by his charges that their lack of will is what’s behind the party’s failure to enact more conservative legislation.

But that media criticism can benefit Trump. “It’s my opinion that they don’t do it properly because you know they poll like three or 400 people”.

But the campaign is also preparing for the possibility that Trump will pounce if Cruz starts to seriously threaten his front-runner status. “Just like Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Bob Vander Plaats would deny gay couples the ability to marry, restrict a woman’s access to health care, and pursue xenophobic policies that only strengthen terrorist organizations overseas”, he said. Now that there’s proof of Cruz officially throwing the first stone at Trump, the gloves are off.

“Ultimately, Trump will falter”, Goidel said.

In a tweet earlier on Friday, Trump challenged Cruz to unveil those concerns publicly, but Cruz has not yet done so.

Carson, Rubio and Trump, meanwhile, each received 14 percent of the vote as caucus-goers’ second choice candidates.

Asked by one attendee if Cruz doesn’t support the renewable fuel standard because of his “ties to big oil”, Trump responded, “yes”.

The Register’s lead political correspondent Jennifer Jacobs wrote in her piece on the poll that “there are signs Cruz may not have peaked in Iowa yet”.

“Cruz has been working on an important factor in Iowa, which is the evangelicals, and he has an enormous ground game there”, O’Sullivan said.

Trump also appeared to take a veiled shot at Cruz’s family background, suggesting Cruz might have trouble appealing to the state’s evangelical voters.

But Carson has been fading fast, and Cruz’s momentum – especially in Iowa – has accelerated.