A few days left until the Iowa caucus, and the gloves are coming off. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is out with his first political attack ad aimed squarely at rival Ted Cruz.
The ad, entitled “Clear Difference,” paints the Texas senator as a “flip-flopping” politician who once supported allowing the millions of people living in the country illegally to remain. It features footage of Cruz stumbling on his words when asked about the issue in December on Fox News while the phrases “Pro immigration” and “Pro Amnesty” flashed across the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq-i8fTlExs
As part of the immigration reform debate in 2013, Cruz introduced an amendment that proposed stripping the option of citizenship but granting eventual legal status for millions. He has since changed his tune.
Trump and Cruz have been engaged in an increasingly hostile war of words as they battle for a win in first-to-vote Iowa, where polls show an increasingly narrow race. The kick-off caucuses will be held on Feb. 1.
The ad includes Trump discussing his own plan for mass deportations, which he described as being the more humane approach.
“Donald trump is simply trying to distract voters from his own support of amnesty,” Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in a statement.
Cruz’s team also released its own attack ad Friday targeting Trump’s support for eminent domain laws, which allow the government to seize private property. Trump has voiced support for using the law to build infrastructure like roads and pipelines, as well as expand companies.
The ad describes the process as “a fancy term for politicians seizing private property to enrich the fat cats who bankroll them.”
It concludes declaring, “Trump won’t change the system. He’s what’s wrong with it.”
Trump has also come under attack by The National Review. The conservative magazine’s latest issue features a compilation of essays from prominent conservative thinkers denouncing the billionaire businessman. Trump responded Thursday night by calling the magazine a dying publication in search of publicity.
The magazine also announced in a blog post that the Republican National Committee had disinvited it from participating in an upcoming Republican presidential primary debate next month. It’s the latest instance of a media partner being dismissed from a Republican debate because of its editorial content.
New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, the Union Leader, was dropped as a co-sponsor of another debate after it published a series of front-page editorials criticizing Trump and endorsed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
“We expected this was coming. Small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald,” the magazine’s publisher, Jack Fowler, wrote in the post.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
It must be Cruz’s Texas values. Call for a balanced immigration , then have 75% of those coming here be of one linguistic group. Cruz is so much more value orientated than those NY folks. Right? No fast talking, sneaky, money hungry business folks or politicians in Houston, Dallas or Austin. Right?
Funny it was a Texan, LBJ who started the Great Society in which generation after generation go on welfare. It was a NY U.S. Senator, Daniel P. Moynihan who warned us in a 1965 book about how family values would evaporate as a result. Imagine he was a New Yorker A Democrat too. He foretold of how government would label social ills as normal and throw money at it at the expense of the working class. I’d take Moynihan’s NY values over Cruz’s.
TRUMP is the individual to lead this nation. He is our next Reagan. The RONALD (1980) and now The DONALD (2016). I hope The Donald follows all the Good Reagan decisions, and learns to avoid the disaster Reagan decisions. People forget Reagan was far from perfect, but he was the best we had at that time form ANY political party.
I respect the RONALD, but remember even Reagan had a couple very bad chinks in the armor.
Here is 2 great things Reagan did that were outstanding.;
1) COLD WAR / BERLIN WALL: Reagan may go down in history as being great at foreign policy. Reagan won the Cold War, The Berlin Wall came down, and Russian communism fell into a big mess … THAT PEACE ACHIEVED THROUGH MILITARY STRENGTH, a significant build up. But at great debt to USA.
2) REAGANOMICS (However, also see below)– He revitalized the economy for a little while, and made Americans feel confident again for the first time in years! REAGAN MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – SOUND FAMILIAR ?
Here is 2 things REAGAN did that blew up the USA;
1) AMNESTY: Reagan deported about 8-12+ million illegal’s, but they all flooded right back across a sieve border into U.S.. THEN REAGAN GAVE THEM ALL AMNESTY (supposed to be a one-time thing) ! BUT REAGAN GOVERNMENT FAILED TO SHUT DOWN THE FRIGGIN BORDER FROM ILLEGALS COMING OVER – A BIG ASS DISASTER for USA and Reagans Legacy.
2) REAGANOMICS (here is the bad) – Reaganomics only worked on the front end, but very quickly became VOO DOO ECONOMICS (GH Bush verbiage) … but the Country did great for a short period. Sadly, Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion (seems small now), BUT at that time it was about about 3X as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether (Sounds like Obama’s 8 year kingdom – except it is now almost $20 Trillion and climbing) .” Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off, forcing Reagan to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite 10 more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control again – Hence the famous VOO DOO Economics legacy.
SMOOTH SEA’S DO NOT MAKE GOOD SAILORS – AMERICA NEEDS A TRUMP PRESIDENCY!
Trump couldn’t lead me to a picnic. I would be afraid of arsenic in the potato salad.
Cruz is a Cuban-Canadian-American manipulating politician…..poison pill amendments…shut the government cruz-missile.
when America was told Obama was a wolf clothed in sheeplike, they brushed it aside in 2007. cruz was a dual triple citizen not long ago…where was his allegiance when he studied at Harvard. Iowans….Americans…..cruz is a typical politician looking to cash in on the enormous power of the highest office in the land just like the community organizer turned Iran sell out now in the Whitehouse. If he truly valued American citizenship, he would have denounced Cuban/Canadian citizenship long before. Now that he want to be the CIC, he is singing the “conservative” song in order to convince Iowans. Wake up, don’t be fooled. Trump will MAGA
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