Donald Trump is hitting back against Ted Cruz’s blistering attack, saying that the Texas senator is “a desperate candidate trying to save his failing campaign.”
Cruz criticized Trump Tuesday as voters went to the polls in the crucial Indiana primary. He called the Republican front-runner “amoral” and warned that the country “can plunge into the abyss” if Trump is elected president.
Trump releases his rebuttal a short time later, saying in a statement that “I have watched Lyin’ Ted become more and more unhinged as he is unable to react under the pressure of losing” the last six primary contests.
Trump — whose description “Lyin’ Ted” gets a massive response from supporters at his campaign rallies — says that the outburst proves that Cruz “does not have the temperament to be president of the United States.”
The vicious exchange comes hours after Trump rehashed an unsubstantiated tabloid report that Cruz’s father had links to Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy’s assassin.
— AP
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