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In A First, Trump Goes On Offensive Against Cruz
Texas Tribune ^

Posted on 12/11/2015 7:08:47 PM PST by springwater13

Billionaire Donald Trump on Friday went on the offensive against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, putting an end to the most closely watched alliance in the GOP race for the White House.

Speaking in Iowa, Trump launched his first attack on Cruz by zeroing in on the senator's opposition to ethanol standards, an issue dear to Iowan hearts.

"He’s got to come a long way because he’s right now for the oil," Trump said at a rally in Des Moines. "I understand it. Oil pays him a lot of money. He’s got to be for oil, right? The oil companies give him a lot of money, but I’m with you.”

Later in the rally, Trump suggested Cruz's stance on ethanol subsidies could be a stumbling block in the first-in-the-country caucus state, where the senator has been rising in the polls.

"If Ted Cruz is against ethanol, how does he win in Iowa? Because that’s very anti-Iowa," Trump said.

Trump's criticism of Cruz on ethanol echoes that of America's Renewable Future, an advocacy group in Iowa that has been hammering Cruz for his opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard. Cruz's campaign has countered that he opposes all energy subsidies, not just those that favor ethanol producers but also ones that benefit the oil industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at texastribune.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bigoil; cruz; election2016; newyork; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: springwater13

...in A First, Trump Goes On Offensive Against Cruz...

Kind of. Not really. He needs him for VP.


21 posted on 12/11/2015 7:37:27 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Calpublican; C. Edmund Wright

The problem with Cruz is his supporters. You guys really make him look like a nasty piece of work.


22 posted on 12/11/2015 7:38:36 PM PST by JoSixChip
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To: springwater13

The fact that Cruz refuses to attack Trump not only galls the mainstream media, it annoys the heck out of Trump. He’s in a tizzy. So he is trying to goad Ted into attacking him, which isn’t going to happen.


23 posted on 12/11/2015 7:42:05 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Will you criticize Cruz for ‘going full crony illegal immigration’?

Yeah, I don’t like this ethanol subsidy thing. So what? This is about number four hundred down on the list of Important Things this election.


24 posted on 12/11/2015 7:45:22 PM PST by Luircin
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To: springwater13
TX Tribune us NOT a media outlet.
It is a SOROS funded Non profit propaganda outlet created by a California transplant left wing nutter who wants to turn TX Blue.

Soros also funded the UT Radical Left Wing Media Dept.

Its not a real news outlet. Why is this crap posted here ?

25 posted on 12/11/2015 7:49:45 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force the)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Robin tugged on his cape last night...that’s a big NO-NO. :-)


26 posted on 12/11/2015 7:49:53 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Thorliveshere

They used to call Lloyd Benson the Senator from Texaco.lol

Its just part of being a Texas Senator.


27 posted on 12/11/2015 7:49:56 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: JoSixChip

What, you mean he’s not? EVERYONE that seems to know or ever work with him paints an incredibly negative picture.


28 posted on 12/11/2015 7:57:47 PM PST by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“Actually, even then he’s their guy...Ann Coulter tweeted as much...that he could perform a partial birth abortion on TV and she’d still support him. You can’t satirize these people.....”

You are a writer and you can’t recognize literary devices?


29 posted on 12/11/2015 7:58:27 PM PST by odawg
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To: springwater13

It wasn’t much of an attack. I watched it.


30 posted on 12/11/2015 7:58:34 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Electric Graffiti

You’re so lame , Trump


31 posted on 12/11/2015 8:00:07 PM PST by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

It’s not worth trying anymore ....it’s full Jim Jones mode at this point


32 posted on 12/11/2015 8:01:27 PM PST by thestob (Cruz 2016)
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To: springwater13

“If Ted Cruz is against ethanol, how does he win in Iowa? Because that’s very anti-Iowa,” Trump said.

...

But it’s very American. Please get that corn garbage out of our engines. I’m against Trump on this one.


33 posted on 12/11/2015 8:01:34 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62
Please get that corn garbage out of our engines. I’m against Trump on this one.

Agreed... and if Cruz makes a great showing in the corn growing ethanol subsidized state of Iowa, then it shows that some American common sense is rising to the surface.

34 posted on 12/11/2015 8:08:22 PM PST by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: springwater13; RginTN
It’s Iowa and he’s trying to win an election. Who really cares? Small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. If we don’t get a handle on ISIS and immigration, we will lose our country.

Yea, really RginTN!

What's a conservative principle here and there to Trump!

They don't matter!

Small, limited government isn't important!

Corporate Welfare is OK!

He's god!!!!



Did I get that right springwater13??
35 posted on 12/11/2015 8:40:06 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: odawg; C. Edmund Wright
You are a writer and you can’t recognize literary devices?

Another excuse from a Trump supporter.

How so......predictable.
36 posted on 12/11/2015 8:41:31 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: JoSixChip; Calpublican; C. Edmund Wright
The problem with Cruz is his supporters. You guys really make him look like a nasty piece of work.

The hypocrisy and irony in that statement is simply mind-boggling.

The perfect example of "nasty piece of work" and cry-babies are some of the Trump supporters.
37 posted on 12/11/2015 8:43:21 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: springwater13

Ethanol destroys engines and contains less energy than gasoline, decreasing fuel economy.
Cars are made to run on petroleum, not corn.

Trump=idiot.


38 posted on 12/11/2015 8:46:38 PM PST by kik5150
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To: springwater13

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39 posted on 12/11/2015 8:58:08 PM PST by Isara
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To: C. Edmund Wright
....so will a SINGLE FR supporter of his criticize this move???/ (wait, don’t laugh....)

There will be a number of things Trump is wrong on...But the things he is right on outweigh those wrong things 20:1...

Right now we MUST be indepndent of A-rab oil...By whatever means it takes...

And that's one of the differences of being for Country over Party...

40 posted on 12/11/2015 8:58:22 PM PST by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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