Posted on 03/29/2016 7:31:50 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Sen. Ted Cruz refused to say Tuesday whether he would still back Donald Trump if the GOP presidential front-runner wins their party’s nomination, backing away from a firm pledge he made earlier in the campaign.
Mr. Cruz, whose coziness with Mr. Trump last year had pundits saying they were in the middle of a bromance, said that faded once the billionaire businessman began to turn nasty, and particularly in recent days when Mr. Trump has said he would go after Mr. Cruz’s wife.
“I’m not an easy person to tick off, but when you go after my wife, when you go after my daughters, that does it,” Mr. Cruz said at a town hall hosted by CNN in Wisconsin Tuesday night.
He accused Mr. Trump of being behind a thinly sourced story last week in the National Enquirer tabloid that reported Mr. Cruz had engaged in affairs with a handful of women. The story aggregated rumors, and the only named source was Roger Stone, an adviser to Mr. Trump, who said: “These stories have been swirling around Cruz for some time. I believe where there is smoke there is fire.”
Mr. Cruz also backed away from the pledge all of the candidates took last year to back the eventual nominee no matter who it is. Mr. Cruz ducked repeated direct challenges by CNN host Anderson Cooper to take a firm stand, saying instead that his goal now is to make sure he doesn’t face that choice.
“The answer to that is to beat him at the ballot box,” Mr. Cruz said.
Mr. Cooper, though, said Mr. Trump had made controversial statements about women and minorities last year, even as Mr. Cruz was praising him: “Sounds like you were engaged in a love fest,” Mr. Cooper said.
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As a matter of fact, Trump went after the cartoonist, who drew the nasty cartoon of Cruz and his girls. But obviously, that kindness went unnoticed and unthanked by Ted; the hypocrite!
Why did Ted not have Carly answer for him?
I don’t trust him anymore. He comes across as a fraud to me.
Lying Team Ted said prior to the Utah primary that Trump wife was a slut. That is well documented.
Isn’t it hilarious how Rafael kissed Trump’s @ss in the beginning of this race? Scorpion and the frog comes to mind. What a maroon.
Yep!
It wasn’t Cary, nor a PAC for her; it was Roe and an anti-Trump.pro-Cruz Pac, fed by Roe. That kind of coordination is illegal, but Roe and Cruz don’t care at all about such things.
Cruz cares so much for his family, he refused to say he never cheated on Heidi.
No way could Cruz beat Hillary OR Bernie; but Trump can beat them all!
Thank you Ted.
That’ll keep your stank off Trump.
See you do have a nice bone in your body.
Yes! I remember that. Trump sure did support Cruz.
That’s a truly uneducated, irrational, patently ridiculous post, by a political naif.
Yep and Anderson Cooper called him on that.
Just one more damn lie. I dont see how i coukd ever trust this guy.
Cruz is toxic.
Melania shows the Cruz girls more attention and actually kindness, than they ever get from their own parents!
But Cruz NEVER said “thanks” nor mentioned it at all, but now BLAMES Trump for “going after his daughters. Obviously, no good turn goes UNPUNISHED by Cruz, his team, and his supporters here.
He’s worse than that!
All Trump has done is go after the other candidates. I’m sorry if that melts your picture of him but all he has done since the start is bloviate and lie about his opponents.
You People cannot win alone, you will need the rest of us come this November, deny at your own risk.
Throw away our beautiful America because of your own pride if you will. Say hello to President Clinton 2.
Show me a model that proves me wrong. I’m daring you to explain how you can win without the Cruz supporters.
Ain’t happening sister.
I hated it when Trump started calling Cruz “Lyin’ Ted.” I didn’t see Cruz as a liar at that time. But, dang, his lies started coming fast and furious after that.
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