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Senator: 'Ted Cruz is my friend'
The Examiner ^
| 2/5/16
| Joel Gehrke
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."
TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; lee
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To: alstewartfan
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:10:10 PM PST
by
Theo
(Trump = French Revolution. Cruz = American Revolution. Choose wisely.)
To: justlittleoleme
The left stick figure should have Obama’s head on it.
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:13:30 PM PST
by
Crucial
(At the heart all leftidsts sw the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
To: dforest
No, one guy meant to vote for Pat Buchanan.
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:19:01 PM PST
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alstewartfan
("I came back as a large hippopotamus." Al Stewart)
To: RobbyS
Loved that film. The only Val Kilmer film I like. Not even "Top Secret!"?
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:21:11 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: alstewartfan
That was me.
Just kidding;)
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:25:14 PM PST
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dforest
To: dforest
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:34:33 PM PST
by
alstewartfan
("I came back as a large hippopotamus." Al Stewart)
To: justlittleoleme
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:36:54 PM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
02/05/2016 6:39:17 PM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: justlittleoleme
Mike Lee is a liar. He’s just trying to hurt The Don. Nobody likes Ted and anyone who says he does is lying. Obviously. Because they’re liars, just like every single Cruz supporter.
Right?
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posted on
02/05/2016 7:25:14 PM PST
by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: cripplecreek
Ted's got an A-team in Washington ....about 20 or so plus solid last count I knew....you can bet there's more as well. Then there are some his “friends” who are not going to say because they're democrats, " infiltrators" let's say.. As we've mentioned before this idea Ted has no friends that Trups been pushing it straight out of the GOPe book...they've been singing that song since he got to the Senate.
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02/05/2016 7:30:54 PM PST
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caww
To: justlittleoleme
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posted on
02/06/2016 9:18:44 AM PST
by
Rockitz
(This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
To: justlittleoleme
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posted on
02/06/2016 9:24:19 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
To: justlittleoleme
So should we add Lee to the other “fake conservatives” like Beck, Levin and Rush?
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posted on
02/06/2016 9:59:00 AM PST
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
(Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: andy1954
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. Just like with the government shutdown, right? Oh, wait.
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posted on
02/06/2016 9:59:00 AM PST
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
(Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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