I took a moment to think about this... And actually this looks bad for Cruz.
This is the second time he’s attacked Trump captured in a ‘secret’ recording. Now I’m not sure if Cruz is releasing these recordings, or people are working against him... But it seems Cruz has no problem saying one thing in private, and another thing in public.
As far as Trump and immigration... Come on! We all know Trump is for deportation of illegals and if they want back in they have to get in the back of the line. If Cruz wants to attack Trump on immigrations he’s going to get smacked down.
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?”
Did you really take a whole moment?
You were pro-Cruz when you signed up about five weeks ago, a few days ago you started to "go sour" on Cruz, and now...well, your "concerns" are noted.
And Trump has advocated expediting the return of the good ones.
You know it seems to me, many conservatives are falling for the hype about Trump without actually knowing what he is or has advocated before.
It's also telling that Trump and Rubio supporters are using the hearing footage where Cruz was employing a poison pill amendment strategy when they know exactly what it was intended to do....ie, expose the true agenda for the Go8.
If you want to know what Cruz has been saying, here it is: Build the wall, add more of a presence on the border, reject legalization/path to citizenship, restore the rule of law. And no this isn't a new position for him. Here he is discussing it in an interview in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0h3Mu8BbjM
“Back of the line” is a contradiction of trump’s “expedited.” If you don’t like that, take it up with trump.