If Trump wants to start falsifying the reason behind Cruz's amendments in the Gang of 8 Bill the way Rubio did, he should be prepared to be taken to task for it the way Levin and Rush did Rubio.
Cruz is one guy Trump better have his info straight on before he speaks. Cruz will dice him up in a straight on debate.
Cruz didn’t center his campaign around the border, didn’t take on the world by taking on illegal immigration publicly. It doesn’t matter what people have said over the years, Trump stood up to the establishment, Democrats, Obama, and media to make illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign.
Could you check the YouTube link that you provided for ”Cruz on Border Wall 2011” conservativejoy? It appears to be a dead link.
The problem with this is - even though Ted might have called for building a wall prior to his run for president - he never ONCE made it a campaign issue until Trump did. Therein lies the rub and the fact that Ted did copy him. M2T and COPY CAT CRUZ at his finest. Even now, he just jokes about the wall, saying he’ll have Trump pay for it, or to see Jeff Sessions about building that wall. This is no luaghing matter and tells me he isn’t serious at all about putting up a wall. All political speak. He doesn’t even watn to go anywhere near what to do with all the illegals already here - says we’ll have that conversation after the border is secure. Oh yeah, let’s not forget his little trip to the border with Glenn Beck to pass out toddy bears and soccer balls. Stick your head in the sand if you want, but many of us are wise to his parsing of words and slick lawyer talk.
“I can predate this 2012 interview of Cruz advocating a border wall with a video from 2011 of Cruz on the border wall.”
Frank Luntz DEMANDED that Republicans not discuss ‘divisive’ issues regarding immigration, during THIS ELECTION CYCLE (i.e., 2016), as the Republican big-money (cheap labor) people, I mean his polling results, showed it was a losing issue for the party.
Until Trump showed up on the scene, it certainly appeared to me that EVERYONE was listening to Luntz, and that NO ONE was talking border walls or deportation in this cycle. Maybe they had talked it prior to 2012, but then George W. Bush SIGNED LEGISLATION to build a wall (in 2006)...and we all know what happened next (i.e., it got killed once the big-money people got their say).
Then Trump came along and everything changed. While I’m certainly happy that Cruz is again supporting a wall, and that Scott Walker supported one (even if on the wrong border)...it is harder to be sure that either of them, or any of the others, are all that serious about it.