Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says the past week’s personal attacks that have spilled mud over the wives of the two leading Republican presidential candidates have caused him to re-evaluate his prior commitment to support Donald Trump if the billionaire becomes the GOP’s nominee.
“I don’t make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family, and Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee,” Cruz told the Texas Tribune and other media outlets on Friday.
Just as Trump blamed Cruz for a Super PAC ad that featured a 2000 magazine cover that showed Trump’s wife nude, Cruz blamed Trump for a National Enquirer article accusing Cruz of infidelity.
“I want to be crystal clear: These attacks are garbage,” Cruz wrote on Facebook. “For Donald J. Trump to enlist his friends at the National Enquirer and his political henchmen to do his bidding shows you that there is no low Donald won’t go.”
Trump and the Enquirer have denied that Trump had any role in the story.
At one time, all of the GOP candidates pledged to support the eventual nominee. In early March, Cruz was joined by Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in a pledge to support Trump if he wins the nomination.
Since then, as the contest has become increasingly personal and vitriolic as establishment Republicans work feverishly to block Trump’s path to the nomination, Kasich and Rubio have said they might reconsider that pledge, citing violence by anti-Trump protesters at a Trump rally in Chicago as a cause for them to change their minds.
The internecine strife has some commentators urging the candidates to focus on November, not one another.
” … the bottom line is that if Trump is the nominee, Republicans will have to support him if they want to attempt to defeat Hillary Clinton,” wrote John S. Roberts on Young Conservatives. “If not, they risk Trump going third party, which hands the presidency to Hillary by taking too many votes away from whomever the Republican candidate winds up being. This election cycle has been the craziest one in modern times.”
h/t: Newsmax
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