Skip to content
I like Ted Cruz. I think he’s very conservative and a great constitutionalist and a very articulate man. I haven’t endorsed him or anything like that. But I also think, he’s an evangelical Christian, and probably one of the worst ones when it comes to trans issues.
— Caitlyn Jenner, in an interview with The Advocate, later adding that she would like to be his “trans ambassador” if he’s elected president.
If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), mocking his former rivals in the Republican presidential race, joking that his “party has gone batshit crazy,” NBC News reports.
71%
Donald Trump’s chances at winning the Republican presidential nomination, followed by Marco Rubio at 26% and Ted Cruz at 1%, according to the PredictWise prediction markets.
He is like a little baby — soft, weak. But when it comes to lying, he’s the best I’ve ever seen.
— Donald Trump went hard after Sen. Ted Cruz at a rally in Nevada, Bloomberg reports.
9 points
Percentage Donald Trump is down since the last survey while Marco Rubio is up 8 points and Ted Cruz is up 3 points, according to a new Public Policy Polling national survey. Trump still leads the GOP presidential field with 25%, followed by Cruz and Rubio, both at 21% and Ben Carson at 11%.
I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you. The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable. I don’t think he has any fixed positions he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far-right wing policies he’d pursue if he became president.
— Former President Jimmy Carter, saying he would pick Donald Trump over Ted Cruz for president, Politico reports.
38%
Donald Trump’s lead in the GOP presidential race in New Hampshire, followed by Ted Cruz at 14%, Marco Rubio at 12%, Jeb Bush at 9% and John Kasich at 7%, according to a new University of Massachusetts-Lowell/7 News survey.
At many of the precincts, the information was disseminated that I was suspending my campaign, that I had dropped out. And anybody who was planning to vote for me was wasting their vote and therefore they should reconsider.
— Ben Carson, accusing Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign of telling voters at Iowa precincts that Carson had dropped out of the race, TPM reports.
If you nominate Trump and Cruz, I think you get the same outcome. Whether it’s death by being shot or poisoning doesn’t really matter. I don’t think the outcome will be substantially different.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by the New York Times.
I question his allegiance to the party. I don’t know how often you’ve heard him say the word ‘Republican’ — not very often.
— Former Sen. Bob Dole, saying that the Republican party would suffer “cataclysmic” and “wholesale losses” if Ted Cruz was the nominee and that Donald Trump would fare better, the New York Times reports. Dole added that while Cruz calls himself “conservative,” he preferred a different word for Cruz: “extremist.”
