Trump finally realized that Iowa wasn’t important enough to continue the feud with Cruz.
Trump never has said Cruz is not a “Natural Born Citizen”.
I grew up in NJ construction and always admired Trump’s ability to get things done through sheer force of will and tenacity. Waaaay too flip-flopish and off message for me. And, no, I am not totally sold on Cruz either.
And this is exactly why I no longer have much trust in him following through on the beneficial things he’s promised to do.
JUSTFORGETABOUTIT!
Trump/Cruz is the conservatives’ dream ticket.
Trump is my #1, and Cruz my #2.
But I’ve got news for all of you either/or people: If either of them gets the nomination, he’s going to need to pick a VP who helps him get elected, and then helps him to deal with the Congress on getting legislation passed. Whoever that is, it may need to be someone we’re not entirely comfortable with.
It’ll be hard enough getting a radical like them elected. It’s going to be harder if the VP is also a radical. Therefore, neither Trump nor Cruz could ever afford to pick the other as his VP candidate. It’ll almost certainly be someone we don’t like.
It’s sad to think that Cruz could be called a radical. In a more sane time, he can’t. But when the entire world is crazy, the sane will seem extraordinary.
If he had said this and not the other stupid attacks on Cruz, he would have won Iowa walking away.
I hope Trump & Cruz work out some behind the scenes truce, because the kind of fighting they have been engaging in will hand the victory to Rubio/Clinton/Sanders.
Once again, I don’t think Trump has ever said Cruz is not eligible. He said the democrats will attempt to make the case.
It just shows that trump really is a typical shameless politician who will say whatever he thinks he needs to to win or close a deal. Who knows what this guy actually believes?
It is normal in politics for two people to be bitter enemies in the heat of campaign battle but once the election is over, have a reconciliation and get along just fine afterwards.
I'm surprised more people don't get this as it applies to a lesser extend in our normal competitive lives. I was a applying for a VP job a few years back and several of my co-workers went for the same job. For those few weeks, I was in competition with them. Call me a bad person but I wished bad luck for them. I hoped they would flub their interviews while I aced mine. I was hoping they made a mistake at work that caused them to be withdrawn by competition. I wanted that job and if I won it by others failing, that was fine by me.
Of course, that karma came back to bite me. I flew to Chicago for the final interview and I made the mistake of ordering a coffee. During the flight, I spilled much of that coffee down the front of my crisp white shirt and tie! I spent the rest of that flight in full panic mode and went right to the terminal bathroom to sponge my shirt and tie with scalding hot water. I actually managed to get most of the brown stains out but I kept my suit jacket buttoned for the entire interview which must have seemed strange.
Needless to say, I did not get that particular job but I did get the same position in New York City a year later which in the long run, worked out for the best. But those other managers who competed for those two jobs with me, I get along with all of them great today. Even though for a short while, we were bitter rivals.
So I'm thinking Trump and Cruz eventually get along and might even be good buddies. Trump could go to a Cruz family barbeque and Cruz could go to Trump Tower and have lunch and exchange funny stories about their campaigns. I'm sure they will have stories to tell each other.