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.@realDonaldTrump: "Most likely, I won't be doing the [Fox News] debate" https://t.co/QarhfsYDuK https://t.co/TH0Twtswco— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 26, 2016
I’ll say this: if Donald Trump can’t handle Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, he’s gonna be knee-deep in trouble onstage with Hillary Clinton.
Just saying.
The war of words continues between GOP front-runners Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz as the Iowa caucus’ loom just on the horizon.
Trump has a new ad out attacking Cruz’s position on immigration reform using an appearance on FOX News where Cruz seemed to stutter, unable to fully explain his position.
Of course, it ends with Trump doing a confident and clearly practiced articulation of his anti-immigrant position.
It’s a solid ad, but nothing spectacular. On a scale of one to ten, I’d give it a 7.
The ad is set to run in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Lets face it – part of the fun of primary season is the sometime hysterical manner and audacious lengths some candidates will go to attack another.
Today we get Jeb Bush’s latest attack on Sen. Marco Rubio which incorporates the recent “Bootgate” story regarding Rubio’s choice of Cuban heel footwear.
Set to the tune of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made For Walkin'” the spot highlights Rubio’s absences at Senate votes and his record of flip-flopping.
It’s worth noting that Jeb Bush was once considered a mentor of sorts to young Rubio.
Fox Business has announced only 7 of the current GOP contenders for the Republican presidential nomination will take the stage this Thursday night.
Sen. Rand Paul did not make the cut, being relegated to an earlier “undercard” debate with Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee.
Paul says he won’t attend the undercard debate.
From CNN:
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday, Paul said he would boycott the Fox Business debate and called the network’s decision a “mistake.”
“It’s a mistake because the thing is we actually have been in the top five or six in most of the recent polls. In fact, last week in a national poll we were just one point out of fourth place. So I think it’s a mistake to try to exclude me from the national debate,” he said.
“I won’t participate in anything that’s not first tier because we have a first tier campaign,” the Kentucky senator told Blitzer.
Sen. Marco Rubio has a new campaign ad out in Iowa in an attempt to woo the heavy conservative evangelical vote. The ad puts the young senator’s faith front and center.
From CNN:
In the 30-second ad, the Florida senator speaks directly with the camera to share why Christianity is important to him spliced with footage of his family.
“The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God’s plan,” Rubio says in the ad. “To those who much as been given, much is expected. And we will be asked to account for that … I try to allow that to influence me in everything that I do.”
Clearly a move to try and reach for some of Sen. Ted Cruz’s support in the state. Cruz currently leads the pack of GOP contenders in recent polls. Rubio is trailing a distant third.
File this under “Infighting is fun” as former Sen. Rick Santorum goes after current front-runner in Iowa, Sen. Ted Cruz, for the Republican nomination in a new ad airing in the Hawkeye state.
From Politico:
“Ted Cruz is wonderful at reading children’s fairy tales on the Senate floor,” the spot titled, appropriately, “Fairy Tales” begins, showing Cruz reading Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” during a filibuster on the Senate floor in 2013.
It then contrasts Cruz’s conduct in the Senate with that of Santorum, who served from 1995 to 2007.
“Rick Santorum spent his time in the Senate a little differently,” the narrator says. “Eight years on the Senate Armed Services Committee, helping to modernize today’s Army to better be prepared for today’s threats. Santorum also wrote and passed tough laws putting harsh sanctions on Iran.”
Cruz went ballistic when a political cartoonist included his children in a recent cartoon after Cruz utilized his kids in an ad that aired during an episode of SNL.
I wonder how Cruz will take to the use of his kids here?
Watch the ad below:
Clip description:
Donald Trump (Darrell Hammond), Sen. Ted Cruz (Taran Killam), Dr. Ben Carson (Jay Pharoah), Sen. Marco Rubio (Pete Davidson), Gov. Jeb Bush (Beck Bennett), Carly Fiorina (Cecily Strong), Sen. Rand Paul (Kyle Mooney) and Gov. Chris Christie (Bobby Moynihan) debate in Las Vegas.
Some news stories you may have missed:
• “Otterly adorable” dude gets “discovered” by news reporter taking a shirtless jog in the rain.
• The U.S. Senate Intelligence committee is looking into whether Sen. Ted Cruz accidentally shared classified info during the GOP debate last night.
• A judge in Baltimore declares mistrial in the case of the police officer accused of killing Freddie Gray.
• Oh, did you hear violent Philly gay-basher Kathryn Knott was found GUILTY of assault and a few other things? Share the good news 🙂
• This guy got 18 months in jail for performing oral sex on a passed out straight guy.
• Six Republican presidential candidates have pledged to make discriminating against LGBTs legal IF they become president. (Don’t worry – none of them will…)
• And speaking of Republicans – did you miss this week’s Republican debate from Las Vegas? No worries – CNN has the 90 highlights reel. Check it out below.
The fab Taiwanese Animators have already shared their take on last night’s GOP debate in Las Vegas.
And, it’s pretty close to how it really went down. Funny.