The message was fit for etching on a cave wall: Even at an opportune moment when voters would’ve benefited from hearing substantive alternatives to Hillary Clinton’s Wednesday counterterrorism speech, Trump and Cruz battled for primal male superiority. But apparently there is no rhetorical floor. Can you imagine President Gerald Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan talking like that in 1976, as they battled all the way to the GOP convention? Reagan: “I could tell ya things about Jerky Jerry’s wife, Betty, like what a lush she is, but I don’t wanna talk about it.” Ford: “I got the hotter wife because Nancy, the B-movie actress, is a cold fish.”īut seriously, what is up with this wife thing? I had mistakenly assumed that the Republican race plummeted to its nadir several weeks ago when the topic was penis size. How far this party has fallen these last 40 years. That remark deserves some context - the rat copulation thing dates back to a word coined during Watergate - but hey, why bother. Cruz - which prompted Cruz to blame the tabloid’s “made up lies” on Trump which prompted Cruz to deny any desire to canoodle with Trump. All this, in the wake of a National Enquirer report which alleges that a sex-crazed Cruz has repeatedly made a chump of Mrs. Cruz - in retaliation for what he thinks was Cruz’s social media assault last week on Mrs. Yup, that’s what Trump said yesterday, insinuating anew about Mrs. You could look, but I don’t want to talk about them.” “There are things about Heidi that I don’t want to talk about. #DealWithIt.WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor “The Establishment’s only hope: Trump & me in a cage match,” Mr. In December, months into his long embrace of Mr. There was a time when relations were less strained. Trump’s decision to bypass presidential debates. Cruz has teased his rival by calling him “#DuckingDonald” over Mr. Trump’s more outlandish attacks by posting playful pop culture

Trump’s cryptic warning continued a pattern of mischief-making on Twitter. Cruz has described as a “period of depression” after moving to Texas from Washington to be closer to her husband. In 2005, when she suffered through what Mr. Cruz has spoken in the past about a trying moment in her life and marriage Trump had in mind concerning Heidi Cruz, a businesswoman who worked in the administration of George W. “Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought. “Pic of your wife not from us,” he wrote. Trump’s post, as primary results trickled in, Mr. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.” Cruz’s campaign.īut the text beside an image of Mrs. The ad, which was targeted to Mormon voters, has no ties to Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to a recent ad from the “super PAC” Make America Awesome, which showed Mr. “Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!” Trump wrote in the slightly revised message. “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from G.Q. Trump quickly corrected himself late Tuesday - by adding more colorful language and punctuation Shortly after publishing, then deleting, a menacing Twitter post about the wife of Senator Ted Cruz, Mr. Credit Erin Hull for The New York Timesįor a moment, it seemed Donald J. Heidi Cruz watched her husband, Senator Ted Cruz, speaking in Houston last week.

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