Cruz not standing for Rubio, Trump calling him a liar

“We need someone who can fix the problems that cause our anger and frustrations, and that’s Jeb Bush”.

He added, “Strength is not empty rhetoric”. It is not theatrics. “Someone who says what he means and does what he says”.

“It is not being honest or candid for either Marco Rubio or Donald Trump to pretend that their records are different than what they are and simply to yell and scream at anyone who points to the words that have come out of their own mouths”, said Cruz, according to the Hill. Texas is the first state that requires a candidate to submit an application for independent status on the presidential ballot.

Jeb Bush, George W. Bush said today, is “going to assemble a great group of people”.

Jeb Bush, who has struggled in a season dominated by outsider candidates, is hoping for a revival in SC after poor finishes in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Although he’s been off the campaign trail for almost a decade, he also effectively made the case for Bush as a leader with a “quiet conviction and a core of conscience that can not be shaken”. One advertisement strings together clips of Mr Trump’s vulgar language and asks: “Is this the type of man we want our children exposed to?”

He appreciates George speaking on behalf of his brother, but he’s not voting for Jeb Bush.

With his brother as a strong warm-up act, Jeb Bush delivered an impassioned version of his campaign speech, touting his experience as Florida governor and vowing he could put Republicans back in the White House for the first time in eight years.

Ahead of Monday’s rally, Bush’s embrace of his family didn’t go unnoticed by Trump, who has been attacking George W. since the last debate on Saturday.

“I signed a pledge and as far as I’m concerned they’re in default of their pledge”, Trump said in Charleston, South Carolina.

“Excuse me, the World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush, right?” “Saddam Hussein was a bad guy”, he said. “Now Iraq is harbor for terrorism”.

Mr. Trump called Mr. Cruz “nuts”, “dishonest” and “an unstable person”, while Mr. Cruz questioned both Mr. Trump’s conservative credentials and whether he had the temperament to be president. Cruz has hit Trump on what he calls liberal “New York values”. “It’s blood sport for him”, Bush said during Saturday’s GOP debate.

If the day projected a united front against Trump, it also felt like a flashback to the mid-2000s. Ted Cruz, when reporters’ phones suddenly started buzzing.

“We’ve become tree farmers”.

“I don’t want the apology after the election”. “I’ve been one to defy expectations”. He joked about his post-presidency hobby of oil painting – laughing that the signature “is worth more than the painting”.

Pete and Tisha Petersen were among the Bush family fans who attended Monday’s rally.

Voters in SC will have their say in the matter Saturday when their state holds its presidential primary. And Don, why has Jeb Bush called on his brother now?

“They’ll still like George, but they may think, ‘Maybe we did make a mistake, ‘” Beasley said.

“I could care less about the insults that Donald Trump gives to me”. While she was excited to see George W. Bush – “an excellent president” – she said his appearance won’t sway her decision.

In an interview a year ago with Bloomberg Politics, Trump said he thought his sister would be a “phenomenal” choice for the Supreme Court. “As I was sitting and watching that on TV, the look on his face said it all”. He talked about the time he had breakfast at Tommy’s Country Ham House in Greenville and a local PETA activist drove into the parking lot and dumped manure to try to block his exit.