[springwater13]

Looks like Donald got the message that going scorched earth on Cruz when he poses no threat is counterproductive. He wasn't talking about Iowa today. He was focused on his agenda at his events and in interviews.

[DoodleDawg]

How can he select Cruz and his vice president when he doesn’t believe he is constitutionally eligible to be president?

[gov_bean_ counter]

More like Rubio better duck and cover because he is about to catch some incoming!

[Yashcheritsiy]

Why vote for a Commie like Cruz or Trump, when you can vote for a REAL conservative?

[McGruff]

“Trump won’t rule out Cruz as VP pick “

He can’t do that. Cruz isn’t eligible.

[cableguymn]

But he is not eligible!

Trump needs to pick a side. his supporters are all over the place. (much like him)

[4rcane]

If Cruz come 2nd of course he’s going to pick him as VP. You guys don’t understand Trump. He will do whatever to win

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Trump probably deals with people in business in his inner circle like this all the time. They still work for him.

[a fool in paradise]

He wants a “nasty guy” as his Veep?

[SoFloFreeper]

That would be a winning combination.

Even Trump/Rubio would work....

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I think this shows the Canada stuff was an act. Hopefully these two can start throwing some fire in the direction of Hillary and Bernie.

[FerociousRabbit]

Sounds like Trump has met his match. He personally attacked one candidate after another and took them out of contention. Cruz hit back hard and substantively and Trump found himself going down.

Now he looks like he has schizophrenia.

[ifinnegan]

“I have nothing against him.”

Wut?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

And I hope that Senator Cruz does not rule out DT as his VP candidate choice.

Cruz/Trump:

I liken it to Eisenhower/Nixon:

Ike: “Yes, Dick Nixon is an SoB but he is OUR SoB!”

Cruz the Constitutional scholar/Trump the SoB to kick butt and not bother to take any names.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Looks like Donald got the message that going scorched earth on Cruz when he poses no threat is counterproductive.”

I think Donald got the message that without Conservatives he ain’t winning the White House. Trump is supposed to go against the establishment. That means Rubio is his target, not Cruz especially when Cruz has no shot at winning NH.

[virginia9000]

Donald Trump has a YUUGE heart. Those of us that support him see that. I think Cruz has to fix the citizenship issue somehow and Donald would consider him seriously for VP. Cruzers can keep denying that the citizenship eligibility issue is bogus but it is not and it is not going away. It will haunt Cruz till the very end.

[napscoordinator]

Trump is brilliant. He went day after day about Cruz and Iowa until the national news picked it up tonight and now he can play nice while the truth gets out to all the american voters. He is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I am really surprised that some here are against him.

[DB]

I doubt Cruz would accept.

To do so would be to hitch his future to Trump’s where he’d have to parrot his bosses liberal policies.

That would be the end of Cruz running ever again as a conservative and he’s young and has potentially many more runs ahead of him.

[irishjuggler]

Well, I don"t know. Look, I have nothing against him. It was sort of a sad thing that happened, but I'"ve always liked him," Trump told Hugh Hewitt on his radio show Thursday, after weeks of trashing his primary rival as nasty, hypocritical and disliked. Trump added that he has "always gotten along well" with Cruz, but that "I'm so much now focused on New Hampshire."

Pretty stunning change in attitude in < 24 hours. Dude is like Oceania in 1984. One day he's at war with Eurasia and good friends with Eastasia. The next day, he's at war with Eastasia, and has ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia.

[lquist1]

“Looks like Donald got the message that going scorched earth on Cruz when he poses no threat is counterproductive. He wasn’t talking about Iowa today. He was focused on his agenda at his events and in interviews.”

Looks like someone finally informed him that he’d better make sure he wins NH or his campaign is in serious trouble. This is his home area and the state is tailor made for his moderate-populist appeal. It is as much a “must-win” for him as Iowa was for Cruz, and Cruz is clearly not the main threat here, Rubio is.

[builder]

Trump finally calms down and says something smart. he has to stop painting himself into a corner with his pronouncements. I doubt he has realized that this flies against his goofy assertions that Cruz is ineligible, but it's another day for trump, so he says another thing.

However should trump make it to the general election, he would never select Cruz as his running mate if Hillary is available, because Hillary brings much more to the table for Trump to help him WIN in the general. And let's face it, that's what his supporters want him to do - WIN. And then build a wall that Mexico pays for. And a little thing like choosing Hillary as his running mate wouldn't even dissuade many of them from voting for him. And choosing Hillary would help him cut into the liberal democrat base against a socialist Sanders. And would help him with older women, lesbian women, moderate democrats, pro-choice women, shove Bernie's supporters to only the fringe lefties, and college kids, that haven't experienced anything too much real in life.