![]() ![]() There's a cold calculus for why the duo have become useful to each other. "I work with the president in delivering on our promises." Sunday, Cruz declined to call the president a friend when asked on ABC's This Week if Trump is a friend or foe. "I might have stayed home"īut all seems to have been forgiven - or at least selectively forgotten. "You stick a finger in their chest and give them a few choice words or you drag their ass out by the woodshed and kick their ass, Ted." "Come on, if someone called my wife 'dog,' and said my daddy was in on the Kennedy assassination, I wouldn't be kissing their ass," an older man in a diner says in a Fire Ted Cruz PAC ad. It's a dynamic that those siding with Cruz's Democratic Senate opponent, O'Rourke, have played up, calling into question Cruz's manhood, particularly since Cruz's campaign slogan is " Tough as Texas." Trump supporters booed Cruz off the stage, as Cruz smiled.Īnd yet, two months later, Cruz relented and endorsed the party's standard-bearer. Trump looked on from the stands as cameras panned to him. Cruz, playing the villain role, told Republican delegates to "vote your conscience." The convention was a scene ripped from the professional wrestling events that might be seen in this arena when the Houston Rockets professional basketball team isn't playing here. "I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father," Cruz said in July of 2016. In addition to what he said about Cruz's father, Rafael, Trump questioned the senator's American-ness, given his Canadian birth called him "worse than Hillary Clinton" and ominously threatened to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife.Ĭruz returned the favor, calling Trump a "pathological liar" said nominating him would be a "train wreck" and refused to endorse Trump at the 2016 national convention. The bitter presidential primary fight between Trump and Cruz went beyond policy differences and got personal. This November, we can send a message to the radical Democrats: Don't mess with Texas." Greg Abbott said earlier at the rally, before slamming O'Rourke as not having "Texas values." "Keep Texas as red as the MAGA hats you are wearing tonight!" Gov. ![]() Democrat Beto O'Rourke has smashed fundraising records and is giving Trump and Republicans a scare in a state that has long been without a statewide Democratic elected official. With just two seats to their advantage in the Senate and just over two weeks to go until Election Day, Trump and Republicans need to hold every seat they can, especially in red states like Texas. "You know, we had our little difficulties," Trump told the crowd. Now, he's "Beautiful Ted." That's how Trump described the Texas senator Monday to reporters before coming here to Houston, Cruz's hometown, to try and help him across the finish line. The president, with his roaring supporters bringing the noise level to a crescendo, gave his full, in-person endorsement to Cruz, a man whose father Trump baselessly accused during the 2016 GOP primaries of associating with Lee Harvey Oswald just prior to the assassination of John F. "In just 15 days, the people of Texas are going to re-elect a man who has become a really good friend of mine," Trump said of Cruz after their extended embrace. Ted Cruz, embracing each other, hands on shoulders, pats on the back, here at the Toyota Center in Houston. There they stood on stage before tens of thousands, President Trump and Sen. They've come a long way since "Lyin' Ted." ![]()
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