Saturday, January 16, 2016

Ted Cruz Goes on Multipronged Attack Against Donald Trump

Following-up from earlier, "Ted Cruz Taunts Donald Trump Over His Slipping Lead and Twitter Habits," and "Ted Cruz Taunts Donald Trump Over His Slipping Lead and Twitter Habits."

Here's more, at NYT:
FORT MILL, S.C. — Disparaging Donald J. Trump’s temperament, questioning his beliefs and even knocking his polling numbers, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas laid into Mr. Trump in earnest on Saturday and abandoned any reluctance to take on his popular Republican rival.

It was a remarkable turn for a candidate who, less than a week ago, was resisting opportunities to tweak Mr. Trump even as he raised questions about Mr. Cruz’s eligibility for the presidency because of his Canadian birth.

“Donald’s record does not match what he says in the campaign,” Mr. Cruz told reporters before a national security forum here, two days after the debate that amplified their feud.

The remarks came hours after a characteristic early-morning flurry of tweets from Mr. Trump in which he attacked Mr. Cruz over his place of birth and his ties to Goldman Sachs, among other subjects. Mr. Cruz’s wife, Heidi, is a managing director in Goldman Sachs’s Houston office (she is on leave during the campaign), and during his Senate race in 2012 he obtained a loan from Goldman Sachs that he did not properly disclose...
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