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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor during the horrific 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center — the twin towers — and resulted in the tragic death of over 3,000 Americans, says that Donald Trump calling George W. Bush a liar over the matter is “absolutely wrong.”Giuliani, appearing on FOX & Friends Wednesday morning, said that while he may turn out to be a supporter of Trump’s, perhaps even during the primary and even considers him a friend, his blame of President Bush for 9/11 is way out of bounds.“What he said...

Alan Hays is Ted Cruz‘ champion in Tallahassee. The state senator from Umatilla is the co-chairman - along with Lakeland Rep. Neil Combee - of the Texas senator’s presidential campaign in Florida. He’ll be among the special guests appearing at a rally for Cruz this Saturday in Clearwater. The rally will be sans Cruz, who […]“He has proven that he is willing to stand up against the establishment,” Hays said Tuesday afternoon, after the Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections meeting.“We’re in the predicament that we are in this country because of 40 years of going on to get along,...

In an NBC/WSJ poll released today, Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump by two points nationally. Cruz has 28 percent to Trump’s 26 percent. Rubio is third with 17 percent, followed by Kasich at 11, Carson at 10, and Bush in last place at 4 percent. “The results from the poll -- conducted after Trump's victory in New Hampshire, as well as after Saturday's GOP debate in South Carolina -- are a significant reversal from last month, when Trump held a 13-point lead over Cruz, 33 percent to 20 percent.” Donald Trump has polled first in 31 consecutive national polls since...

CHARLESTON, SC, February 17, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - In a hard pitch for evangelical support, Ted Cruz embraced personhood and said the right to life is the most definitive issue in politics. "No issue reveals the true character of a candidate for public office more than the life issue," Cruz said in the new video, which was released yesterday. "It's more than a litmus test. It's a window to the soul." It's also the most effective political barometer when measuring candidates, because "if they're bad on life they're always - repeat, always - bad on everything else, too." "The right to...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is one of the pro-life candidates seeking the GOP nod to take on pro-abortion Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Cruz has a long pro-life track record in office and it’s one he says in a new video he will continue as president."A candidate that can't be trusted to protect the right to life can't be trusted to protect any of our other God-given rights either. When you look at the voting records of politicians…if they're bad on life, they're always — I repeat always — bad on everything else, too,” Cruz says in the new...

Ted Cruz had a message for Donald Trump during a press conference in Seneca, SC Wednesday: Go ahead and sue me.The Trump campaign has threatened Ted Cruz with a lawsuit claiming defamation in one of Cruz's recent TV ads. The ad attacks Trump's record on abortion by running old clips of the candidate describing himself as "very pro-choice."At the press conference, Cruz called the cease and desist letter one of the most "frivolous" he's ever seen, and noted Trump's lifetime pattern of frivolous lawsuit threats.Watch the clip of the press conference below:WATCH HEREIn the last few days Trump has been...

I filled in for Herman Cain earlier today and had on Senator Jim DeMint, the current President of the Heritage Foundation and former Senator from South Carolina.The interview was about the Supreme Court, but I had to ask DeMint about the attacks on Cruz in South Carolina. Neither Cruz nor Rubio would be in the Senate but for Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund supporting them.Senator DeMint told me he knows Ted Cruz, knows he is honest, and knows that the attacks are coming because Cruz fights Washington. Washington politicians, in turn, have decided they have to take out Ted Cruz.You...

Seneca, South Carolina (CNN)Ted Cruz is calling Donald Trump's bluff.Cruz slammed Marco Rubio and Donald Trump during a dramatic press conference Wednesday that underscored the escalating tension among Republicans ahead of Saturday's South Carolina primary. But it was his broadside against Trump that sounded like a challenge: sue me."I have to say to Mr. Trump you have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life," Cruz said at a press conference in South Carolina. "If you want to file a lawsuit ... file the lawsuit."He said Wednesday said that Trump's lawyers have sent his campaign a cease and desist...

Retired U.S. Senator Tom Coburn is not happy about being misquoted by bombastic billionaire and reality TV actor Donald Trump in the real estate mogul’s latest attempt to perform character assassination against constitutional conservative presidential candidate Ted Cruz.As part of the onslaught of baseless personal attacks against Cruz, Trump retweeted quotes supposedly attributed to the former Oklahoma senator.The quote attributed to Tom Coburn, which called Cruz “one of the most dishonest people in DC,” was never spoken or written by him, according to the former senator in a phone interview with the Washington Examiner.Instead, Coburn called the quote an “absolute...

Tea party congressman calls senator 'a full spectrum conservative' U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp has endorsed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for president."Ted Cruz is a full spectrum conservative that the people of Kansas should rally behind," Huelskamp, a Republican, said in a statement. "I have seen Senator Cruz stand up for conservative principles in Washington time and time again."Cruz called Huelskamp an outspoken advocate for conservative social stances, including traditional marriage and protecting religious liberties."He is a man that has stood up to the Washington Cartel to fight for conservative principles," the Texas senator said. "Congressman Huelskamp has been...

“He [Trump] knows that this business of Cruz running around and using the phrase ‘New York values’ was not an insult to anybody about 9/11,” conservative talk show great Rush Limbaugh said on Monday. “Trump knows it,” he reiterated to his vast radio audience.Limbaugh weighed in — perhaps more than at any time previously — on Donald Trump’s recent character assassination against Ted Cruz, who has skyrocketed into second place behind Trump in all national polls, saying Trump is making a “strategic error” attacking Cruz on the “birther” issue, as well as calling Cruz a “nasty person” as he did...

Economist and conservative thinker Thomas Sowell has endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for president, saying his Republican rival Donald Trump would lead the party — and the country — to “disaster.”In an op-ed Tuesday for Real Clear Politics, Mr. Sowell,. . . . . “Whatever the achievements of anyone in some other field, we cannot afford a novice in the complex world of politics and government at a time of grave dangers at home and internationally,” Mr. Sowell wrote. “Some seem to think that Donald Trump’s lead in the polls and in the New Hampshire primary make him the most...

And Sen. Coburn is TICKED. This tweet probably alarmed a lot of people. Dan Scavino, of the Trump campaign, claimed that Tom Coburn trashed Ted Cruz as “without a doubt, one of the most dishonest people in DC.” That would indeed be a scandalous and damaging thing if it had happened. But it didn’t happen. It’s a lie. First, take a look the firestorm: Unreal! Highly respected Senator Tom Coburn- said this about Cruz: https://t.co/2WswDhyPQD— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2016 So it is presented as a quote, and retweeted by The Donald himself. No clean hands here.Luckily, Jake...

Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer has endorsed Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican's campaign announced on Tuesday. Meyer, a former Marine who earned the Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan, will join Cruz on the campaign trail in South Carolina, according to the release. "We need a commander in chief who works with our allies and makes it known that certain actions against the United States and its allies will not be tolerated. I am confident that Ted Cruz has the ability and resolve to be commander-in-chief," Meyer said in a statement.Meyer was briefly engaged to Bristol Palin, daughter...

With the Republican primary in South Carolina just days away, Ted Cruz has stepped up his fight with Donald Trump, who is threatening to sue him unless he stops airing what the billionaire candidate calls "false ads" and retracts what he called a series of lies. Cruz questioned both Trump's conservative credentials and whether he had the temperament to be president. "The people of South Carolina want a consistent conservative they can trust," Cruz told reporters before his rally in Aiken.  Cruz, who is trying to weaken Trump's standing among South Carolina's social conservatives and evangelical Christians, also released a...

It took less than 48 hours for the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to make its way into an attack ad in the 2016 election, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz warning that businessman Donald Trump cannot be trusted to nominate Scalia's replacement.In a new television ad entitled "Supreme Trust," a narrator ticks off a list of issues that have come before the Supreme Court."Life, marriage, religious liberty, the Second Amendment. We're just one Supreme Court justice away from losing them it all," the narrator says.The ad then cuts to footage from Donald Trump's interview on "Meet the Press"...

Now that the GOP race has moved out of the left-wing northeast, where Donald Trump shined, Ted Cruz is back in motion, getting bold when speaking to crowds in South Carolina.Like fellow conservative Marco Rubio, who’s also showing gains in the state, Ted Cruz is making it clear that if he were President, America would have a stronger military ready to keep our country safe.Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks to supporters on the Statehouse steps in Concord, N.H., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, after filing papers to be on the nation’s earliest presidential primary ballot. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)Cruz...

Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday proposed the largest military build up of any of the Republicans vying to be president. The plan features growth in numbers of troops, airplanes and ships.The Texas Republican talked about how he would build a military with "more tooth, less tail" if elected as the next commander in chief. The plan also far exceeds the administration's request for fiscal 2017.Cruz would build up the active duty Army to 525,000 soldiers. The Army's troop level in 2016 was about 475,000 soldiers, but is planning to draw down in fiscal 2017 to 460,000 and an eventual goal...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Days before the primary in military-heavy South Carolina, Ted Cruz came to a warship here to deliver a detailed plan to rebuild America's military after what he called "years of neglect" under President Barack Obama."More tooth, less tail – that will be our guiding philosophy," Cruz declared.In a sign of the speech's seriousness and importance, Cruz, who prefers to speak extemporaneously, stood at a lectern in a blue suit and tie and spoke from notes, with American flags and war planes behind him, aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown.For much of the 2016 race, Cruz has sought a...

It seems clear that the Republican presidential primary has taken a turn for the bizarre when Donald Trump has the gall to call another competitor "unstable."Donald Trump has undeniably changed the national conversation surrounding this election. A frontrunner from the jump, Trump has unapologetically bashed political correctness and has stirred the pot that, quite frankly, desperately needed stirring.His bomb-throwing antics and jabs have entertained and inserted some chaos into the controlled devolution of the GOP. But has he now gone too far?In truth, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump should be fighting side-by-side. Both contenders despise the raw deal that Americans...