Posted on 02/05/2016 4:51:06 PM PST by justlittleoleme
Sen. Mike Lee doesn't like it when GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump claims that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has no friends in the Senate. "It makes me mad when Trump says that," Lee told the Washington Examiner this week. "Ted Cruz is my friend, so if Mr. Trump or anyone else is saying Ted Cruz doesn't have any friends in the Senate, I can say unequivocally, that is not true. I am his friend and I don't regard myself as alone in that either."
Lee in 2010 became the first Tea Party candidate to upset an incumbent GOP senator.
Trump has spent weeks hitting Cruz for failing to garner the endorsement of any fellow senators, but Lee said he has only remained on the sidelines because some of his "close friends" are running for president, such as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Paul's departure from the race simplifies the problem for Lee, but only a little. "If either Ted or Marco were the only one of my friends in there, I'd endorse either one," he said. "If it came down to a two-person race, say, between Cruz and Trump or Rubio and Trump, then it's an easy decision to make."
Because multiple senators were/are running and he’s up for election. That’s my guess.
Where does Tom Cotton rank on that list?
DeMint would be a pretty good pick.
I have always liked the guy, but thanks for the heads up.
Can’t be Lee/Sessions since Lee is not on the ballot.
I think we have all had friends that did not have the desire to fight the enemy and handed over their lunch money.
Fock islam, illegals, Dindus and gibmedats.
The Hatchling is out to get Lee this year.
That makes sense or he like me really believes friend Rubio has a better chance.
He does leave Nancy Pelosi alone so I guess that shows that he respects women.
In the upside down world of FR Ted Cruz is the nasty, inconsistent, opportunistic Texan and Donald Trump is the caring, principled, conservative New Yorker.
Ok.
I think it is that Canadian thing.
I think it is because the down ticket is in real trouble with. Cruz he could lose 40 states and congress. They all know it.
My mom is for Rubio and my son was for Carson but has mostly come over to Cruz. He thinks Carson doesn’t put enough into his campaign but my son loved how Carson used Facebook to communicate with people, take questions and such. I think my husband has thrown up his hands and thinks nothing is going to change until it all falls apart and we start over. I’m kinda waving the Cruz flag by myself over here, but my son texts with me during debates and I’m pretty sure he’s going Cruz now. My mom will cut me off in a heartbeat if I mention anything negative about Rubio.
You should listen to your Mother. LOL.
Googling: "How to clean iced tea off your monitor and keyboard."
hahahahaha! I mostly do.
Loved that film. The only Val Kilmer film I like.
Good she is right this time. :).
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