Cruz, at the proper time, has put Trump in check on this issue. It wasn’t in SECRET, it was at a filmed, public campaign rally in Iowa. Here’s how Cruz always intended to go after Trump— respectfully, demonstrating the inconsistencies in Trump’s positions.;
“Look, there’s a difference,” he told a questioner in Boone, Iowa, in footage first reported on by BuzzFeed. “He’s advocated allowing folks to come back and become citizens. I oppose that.”
Cruz admitted that he and Trump align on deporting all of the nation’s illegal immigrant population, however.
“Absolutely, yes,” the GOP presidential candidate said when asked if he supports deporting every illegal immigrant in America. “We should enforce the law.”
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Donald now will have to reply— “Cruz isn’t going to let deported illegals back into the country, why are you letting illegals back in?”
I agree that it’s smart politics, but like I said this is the second time Ted has said something in private, that hasn’t been said in public.
It’s bad optics for Ted.
As far as the politics of it, the big play here is that if Trump engages Cruz, it gives Cruz media attention which he needs leading into Iowa/New Hampshire... Media attention Trump has sucked up with his attacks on the Clintons.
As far as Cruz Vs Trump on immigration... Cruz loses this fight, right or wrong, he loses it.