Posted on 12/02/2015 11:21:28 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday said the so-far friendly competition between himself and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is primed to get ugly now that Cruz is rising in the polls.
"Cruz has been great to me, no matter what I say he agrees," Trump told supporters at a rally in Manassas, Va.
"But at some point he's going to have to say, 'I have to attack him because otherwise I'm going to come in second place or something.'"
Cruz has been loathe to criticize Trump, openly acknowledging that he admires the outspoken real estate mogul and intends to keep him close in hopes of one day peeling away his supporters.
But with Cruz gaining fast in the polls, Trump predicted that their current arrangement would likely be short-lived.
"They all have to go through me," Trump said.
"They've all got to attack, and I love it when they attack because so far everyone who has attacked has gone bingo," he added, pointing downward. "It's true. They've gone down. They've gone down big league."
As is customary for Trump at his rallies, he ticked through nearly the entirety of the GOP presidential field, insulting the candidates one by one.
Trump came up with a new dig against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who he has long criticized as "low energy."
"[Bush] stands up, he starts speaking and everybody falls asleep," Trump said. "We could make a lot of money with him. Call him 'SleepMaster.' He puts people to sleep."
Trump called Ohio Gov. John Kasich "the worst debater I've ever seen."
"He's a professional politician but he can't speak properly," Trump said. "He's terrible. He's terrible."
The business mogul called Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) "weak on immigration," accused him of being for "amnesty" and ripped his attendance record in the Senate.
"How would you like to be in Florida and you invest in a guy, you invest in him and you take him to heart... and he's in there for about 12 seconds and decides he wants to run for president?," Trump asked. "Now, why would you want a guy who doesn't show up to vote?"
And Trump accused retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson of advocating for the elimination of Medicare, mocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his low polling numbers, and said former New York Gov. George Pataki "can't get elected dog catcher."
"They're going to start falling like flies, you watch," Trump said. "At some point they have to leave, don't they?"
Trump also made fun of the Democrats running for president.
He said Hillary Clinton "doesn't have the strength or the stamina to be president," and alleged that she has to take naps after her campaign rallies.
And Trump mocked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who recently underwent a hernia repair procedure.
"He just had a hernia operation," Trump said. "He was carrying around the tax code he wants to make larger. It's true. I actually made that up. He just had a hernia operation, and I hope he gets better fast."
At one pointm, protesters interrupted the rally, and Trump promptly instructed the police to have them removed.
"Oh. I hear some friends," Trump said as the protesters shouted in the back. "They don't want to make America great again. I swear I don't think they do. We want to be a unifier, and we have to be. I do a great job with things and [the protesters will] be a great beneficiary and maybe they don't understand it yet. But maybe the police can move them away so we can all hear ourselves."
Trump then turned to the law enforcement officials in the room.
"Will the police remove them very nicely, very gently please?" he said.
Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican presidential race - in both polling and media attention. But in a new Quinnipiac University national poll on the 2016 field, it's Ted Cruz who looks like the candidate you may want to bet on.
Here's why......"
Go Cruz.
Cruz doesn’t need to insult Trump. Cruz can just keep hammering home his own record of rock solid conservatism and his plans for the future. Let the voters make their own comparisons. Cruz will win out.
LOL....not bloody likely; Cruz isn’t attracting as divergent a group as Trump is and shan’t.
“...........In the RealClearPolitics.com average of Iowa GOP polls, Trump leads Carson 26.7 percent to 20 percent, followed closely by Cruz at 18.3 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida rounds out the top four - and top tier - with 12.3 percent. Quinnipiac’s Iowa survey, conducted Nov. 16-22, revealed where the candidates’ support was coming from. Trump, as it turns out, led among Republicans who describe themselves as “liberal” and “somewhat conservative.”
That data contradicts the conventional wisdom that Trump is the preferred candidate of only the far right of the Republican Party. He did pull solid support from voters who identify with the Tea Party, as Christian evangelicals or describe themselves as “very conservative.” But those three categories belonged to Cruz, in some cases by wide margins. Overall, Trump led Cruz 25 percent to 23 percent in this poll; Carson garnered 18 percent, Rubio 13 percent.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in-iowa-carson-key-to-cruz-v.-trump-outcome/article/2577506
“Ted Cruz is the sleeping giant in the Republican race”
Oh, Christ, another one of these.
I’m starting to be that the Cruz campaign has sent the word out to these bloggers to print an endless stream of these narrative-pushing stories about this galactic-sized surge that Cruz is about to pull.
This has to be the 14th in the past two weeks.
The only way that’s going to happen is if Trump attacks Cruz, because Cruz won’t do it (unconventional candidate focused on issues for once, not on personal attacks). I think in the end Cruz wins..!
Cruz is the conservative, Trump the progressive. I only have to vote.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in-iowa-carson-key-to-cruz-v.-trump-outcome/article/2577506
“......Quinnipiac’s Iowa survey, conducted Nov. 16-22, revealed where the candidates’ support was coming from. Trump, as it turns out, led among Republicans who describe themselves as “liberal” and “somewhat conservative.”....
I like Donald Trump’s tax plan a lot. What is Ted Cruz’s tax plan?
"The Republican Party will continue to lose presidential elections if it comes across as mean-spirited and unwelcoming toward people of color, Donald Trump tells Newsmax. Romney's solution of "self deportation" for illegal aliens made no sense and suggested that Republicans do not care about Hispanics in general, Trump says."He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal," Trump says.
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Charles Schumer raked in $9,900 in Trump cash - 23 Prominent Democrats Who Rolled In Donald Trump's Dough
He also gets conservatives, disaffected Dems, blacks, Hispanics, LEGAL immigrants, the young, the old, and the middle, all socio-economic classes, Indies, and the never voted befores of every age.
And union bosses too.
: )
I am very aware of Trumps past and his past statements, I stated early on, I cannot support the man, his honor is always in question for me.
Whom he owes NOTHING at all to! :-)
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