For months, Ted Cruz has laughed off Donald Trump’s barbs, berated reporters who mentioned him and gone to near-comic lengths to publicly express enthusiasm for the real estate mogul’s rival candidacy.
Cruz isn’t laughing anymore.
As Trump closes the gap with Cruz in Iowa while at every turn taunting him over his Canadian birthplace and sometimes questioning his faith, the Texas senator this week kicked off a new and much more aggressive phase in his relationship with the national poll-leader. It’s a move that many in Cruz’s orbit are cheering.
“It’s just the time,” said Pastor Mike Gonzalez, who is spearheading Cruz’s evangelical outreach here in South Carolina. “He has a plan, his plan is now going into the actual voting, to throw this thing in overdrive and show there are clear distinctions. There’s one candidate that is the conservative in this race, and that’s Ted Cruz, not Donald Trump.”
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