Ted Cruz Gains in Louisiana After Loss There to Donald Trump

Mar 28, 2016, 16:30
Ted Cruz Gains in Louisiana After Loss There to Donald Trump

Hostilities reached a new high Friday when Cruz accused Trump and "his henchmen" of stoking false rumors that he'd cheated on his wife.

Trump and Cruz have in recent days engaged in an intensifying war of words over their wives.

"Donald may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him", said Cruz.

Donald Trump is denying allegations made by Republican presidential rival Ted Cruz that he is spreading rumors about the Texas senator's personal life. "Leave Heidi the hell alone". Trump responded by threatening to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife.

Cruz, a US senator from Texas, is a staunch social conservative and a divisive figure in the party due to his willingness to criticize the leadership and his prominent role in bringing about a 2013 government shutdown. "We don't want a president who seems to have a real issue with strong women". Cruz' wife, Heidi Cruz, was campaigning with him on Friday and he gave her a hug and kiss before he began a town hall event.

By contrast, in 2012 Republican presidential nominee won 56 percent of the votes of white women and still lost the election to President Barack Obama. For Trump, attacking another candidate's wife may carry some political risk. "If he did, he would have run for it", he said, according to The Hill.

On the Democratic side Thursday, front-runner Hillary Clinton warned that "hot rhetoric and demagoguery" can be offensive and risky.

Her remarks in Los Angeles came a day after rival Bernie Sanders predicted he would claim the nation's most populous state in its 7 June primary. And he showed no signs after Cruz's rebuke that he would back down, telling his followers early Thursday evening that Cruz was responsible for the altercation. Ted Cruz amassed 69 percent - by far the largest margin of victory in the campaign for any Republican candidate. She supported Trump a year ago and has often been the face of the campaign for cable news programs. It is a story that quoted one source on the record, Roger Stone, Donald Trump's chief political adviser.

With that huge margin, Utah Republicans are left to wonder, if Trump goes on to win the nomination, will his deeply unpopular image among many Mormons create a turnout problem in a taken-for-granted red state?

With hundreds of delegates up for grabs after Marco Rubio and Ben Carson dropped out of the Republican presidential race, Donald Trump is planning his strategy to snatch as many as he can, NBC News reports.

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