Ted Cruz: 'Condom Police' Remark Shocks In Iowa

"Jiminy Cricket, '" Cruz exclaimed.

The Texan's challenge is that he's boxed in: Any hint of support for normalizing the status of undocumented immigrants risks turning off the conservative voters he's relying on, while mass deportation is widely viewed as impractical-and inhumane by some Republicans. And if I’m elected president, I will make unambiguously clear that we will destroy ISIS — not weaken it, not degrade it, but utterly destroy it, ” he says, using one of the several acronyms for the group. Yet he also bridles at any suggestion that he's inexperienced, as Jim Newell pointed out earlier this year when Cruz tried to differentiate his own record from Senator Barack Obama's. The other examples are even more limited and deal with what employers would be required to pay for, for instance, or whether a major birth control provider should continue to receive federal funding.

"We need America", Cruz says they tell him. James Risch of Idaho, Steve Daines of Montana and Cory Gardner of Colorado - is a fear the party "establishment" has of a Cruz nomination, Politico reported.

The rebuke is the Cruz's campaign strongest counterstrike yet against Rubio, who has repeatedly hammered the Texas Republican over his support for NSA reform this summer.

"Senator Rubio emphatically supported Hillary Clinton in toppling (Muammar) Qaddafi in Libya". A big mural hangs in Cruz’s Senate office featuring the Republican icon standing in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, making his famous call for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”. This has hardly endeared him to Republicans. "So what do they do, they try to shift it. The war on women wasn't that, it was contraceptives".

That same system will be used to screen thousands of Syrian refugees under the president's new push to bring them into the country, a policy Cruz opposes. Cruz's progressive critics say his demurrals are a red-herring-that he's setting up obstacles that will never be met.

"It doesn't make any sense at all", Cruz said. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Susan Collins of ME and Dean Heller of Nevada. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. Asked in a follow-up if he'd be willing to address the question of what to do about the undocumented population once all the security measures he has proposed-including a border wall, tripling the border patrol and a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system-are in place, Cruz pivoted to insisting he'll prioritize securing the border and stopping illegal immigration. "I am convinced that was a terrorist attack".

"We must not separate the threat to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from the threat to Paris or London or NY or Miami", Rubio said. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slammed him on "Morning Joe", saying Cruz took the expedient path on the National Security Agency, a vote that now looks bad in retrospect. "That is just part of the record, it is nothing personal". "You're Hillary Clinton and you're trying to think, 'How do I run?'" Cruz said.

Unlike Rubio, Cruz said has refrained from going after Trump. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), is now trapped.

Trump remains the frontrunner in Iowa and virtually everywhere else, and that's great news for Democrats on the ground in key primary states. "It would be bold and premature to count Trump out at this point", Skelley said.